Aptness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for APTNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of being apt
• the quality of being appropriate or suitable
• Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.
• Disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example.
• Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.
• Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust.
• a disposition to behave in a certain way
• appropriateness for the occasion

Words related to APTNESS

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Words that contain APTNESS

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How to use APTNESS in a sentence

• After leaving college he became a school-teacher, with no aptness and much disdain for his calling.
• I shall never forget one expression that he used, which for originality and aptness could not be excelled.
• Indeed, we doubt whether the brilliancy of his manner does not resolve itself into the rapidity, the variety and aptness of his illustrations.
• The idolatry of the poet, which marked that time, was an inevitable consequence of the singular aptness of his utterance.
• He did not realize the effect upon others, of his aptness to ignore all explanation.
• There is force in the arguments, richness of ideas throughout, and a wonderful aptness of allusion and illustration.
• And I was in the Sixth Standard when I left school, and they said I had great aptness, and should make a good teacher, so it was settled that I should be one.
• The old gentleman had him taught to read and write, and his aptness was such as to highly gratify the kind old soul.
• But thenceforward, and now for half a week or more, the aptness seemed quite to have passed.
• It seemed as if her powerful memory was revived, seeing that the stores of Scripture which she had made hers were now drawn upon with singular aptness and felicity.
• Aptness is inevitably hereditary among the Hindus, and, also inevitably, the son follows the profession of the father.
• But it is said that drowning men clutch at straws, and the metaphor might be applied to Verity with peculiar aptness.
• But he had a wonderful aptness for understanding legal principles and the weight and effect of evidence.
• The aptness of form and expression has been arrived at by deliberate means, and owes nothing to chance.
• Its language must be choice, for aptness of expression and for melodious sound.
• Her mental activity was evinced not more in the cunning aptness of her songs than in the droll wisdom of her sayings.
• He would quote with a singular fluency and aptness every passage of Scripture that blasted hypocrites, reproved the lukewarm, or threatened damnation to the sinner.
• Yes, that is just it, Jacob replied, struck by the aptness of the comparison.
• Competence and aptness, or folly and heedlessness, make a world of difference.
• I had never seen a man betray such a peculiar aptness amid machinery as he did.
• But apart from books his sallies of wit, the aptness of his stories and allusions quite dazzled me.
• So, where a family have been traders, will the offspring naturally discover an aptness for bargaining and commerce.

Similar words containing APTNES without suffix s

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