[f. next + -ITY.] The quality or condition of being suitable; an instance of this. Const. to, for, or inf.
1681–6. J. Scott, Chr. Life, I. iv. § 2. Wks. 1718, I. 273. If … we can discover a World of mutual Suitabilities of this to that,… it will be a sufficient Argument that they all proceed from some wise Cause.
1718. De Foe, Fam. Instruct. (1841), II. I. i. 15. What suitability can there be in two tempers so extremely opposite?
1853. F. W. Newman, Odes of Horace, 1. Its suitability as a first piece is our excuse for presenting it quite out of chronological order.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., II. xvi. It was a marriage of pure inclination and suitability.
1867. Mill, Subj. Women (1869), 170. The suitability of the individuals to give each other a happy life.
1912. Times, 19 Dec., 19/2. The suitability of the greater proportion of Rhodesia for the breeding of stock.
