Crossword-Solution: APTNESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aptness | n. | Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end. |
| Aptness | n. | Disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example. |
| Aptness | n. | Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others. |
| Aptness | n. | Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| APTNESS | anagram | PATNESS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with APTNESS (5)
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
But we must take things in turn.” His words had a singular aptness, for he had hardly uttered them when Roderick came out from the house, evidently in his darkest mood.
Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; d?cility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.
She immediately threw off all the restraint belonging to an interview with a stranger; and when she had received a few more similar proofs of my aptness for the marvellous, she went so far as to say that she would adopt me as her _élève_ in occult science.
The lighter sort of malignity, turneth but to a crassness, or frowardness, or aptness to oppose, or difficulties, or the like; but the deeper sort, to envy and mere mischief.
Quotes with APTNESS (3)
A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about clichés: 'Avoid them like the plague.' Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought clichés got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the clichéd saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliché.
It is a difficult question, my friends, for any young man-- that question I had to grapple with, and which thousands are weighing at the present moment in these uprising times-- whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and re-shape his course accordingly. I tried to do the latter, and I failed. But I don't admit that my failure proved my view to be a wrong one, or that…
A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition - that is, it is good in itself, and considered by itself is to be esteemed much higher than all that can be brought about by it in favor of any inclination, nay, even of the sum-total of all inclinations... like a jewel, it would still shine by its own light, as a thing which has its whole value in itself.
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).