fitness

Synonyms for fitness

noun good condition

noun. appropriateness

noun. use

1570s, from fit (adj.) + -ness.

It did not occur to him to question his fitness for the work.

The young girl no longer listened to these reasons of the fitness of things.

Only this very morning I read her a sermon upon 'Propriety, and the fitness of things.'

The place had an Homeric simplicity and beauty which touched his sense of fitness.

Candidates must only be proposed for their fitness, and opposed on the ground of unfitness.

Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things, for gifts.

His want of skill in other directions has added to his fitness for his own work.

With an odd sense of fitness they had dressed themselves in black.

He wanted to curse his brother, yet was he too overwhelmed by the sense of the fitness of this punishment.

Besides, their fitness or unfitness has nothing to do with it.