Crossword clues for aptness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aptness \Apt"ness\, n.
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Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.
The aptness of his quotations.
--J. R. Green. 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from apt + -ness.
Wiktionary
n. 1 suitability; the quality of being apt or suitable 2 disposition of the mind; propensity 3 quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility 4 proneness; tendency
WordNet
n. a disposition to behave in a certain way; "the aptness of iron to rust"; "the propensity of disease to spread" [syn: propensity]
appropriateness; "the phrase had considerable aptness" [syn: appositeness] [ant: inaptness, inaptness]
Usage examples of "aptness".
But he had a wonderful aptness for understanding legal principles and the weight and effect of evidence.
But there was some interference from this fellow Bowler, who, with an ironic aptness, seems to regard you as an imperialist.
The plenty of game and fish, the innumerable bee-hives deposited in the hollow of old trees, and in the cavities of rocks, and forming, even in that rude age, a valuable branch of commerce, the size of the cattle, the temperature of the air, the aptness of the soil for every species of gain, and the luxuriancy of the vegetation, all displayed the liberality of Nature, and tempted the industry of man.
He explained how the enterprise differed from others, and how he needed for its direction a man who combined general business experience and business ideas with a love for the thing and a natural aptness for it.
When we read the praises bestowed by Lord Penzance and the other illustrious experts upon the legal condition and legal aptnesses, brilliances, profundities, and felicities so prodigally displayed in the Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous.
Likewise, adding hereunto her great appearance of love to me, her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God, her capablenesse of understanding, her aptness and willingness to receive anie good impression, and also the spirituall, besides her owne incitements stirring me up hereunto.