Usually means: Conforming to established standards, decorum.
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  1. properness: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. properness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. properness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. properness: Vocabulary.com
  5. properness: Wordnik
  6. properness: Wiktionary
  7. Properness, properness: Dictionary.com
  8. Properness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. properness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. properness: Rhymezone
  11. Properness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. properness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. properness: Free Dictionary
  14. properness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Properness: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Properness: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. properness: Legal dictionary

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  1. properness: Encyclopedia

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  1. properness: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (properness)

noun:  The state or condition of being proper; propriety.
noun:  (mathematics) The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.).
noun:  (obsolete) Excellence, quality.

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