Definition of "aptness" []

• Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end. (noun)
• Disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example. (noun)
• Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others. (noun)
• Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust. (noun)

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• "Manning points out that a pattern of cognitive failure, followed by delayed understanding, has a certain aptness here."
• "Thus there was a certain aptness in his first publishers 'commission, which was to travel to the industrial north of England and write a report on the effects of unemployment and poverty on the lives of the working class."
• "This natural aptness, which is fortified by living together, was in Lionello sharpened and refined by his ever wakeful malevolence."