different between adapted vs suitableness

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??dæpt?d/
• Hyphenation: adapt?ed

Verb

adapted

1. simple past tense and past participle of adapt

Adjective

adapted (comparative more adapted, superlative most adapted)

1. Having been subject to an alteration or change to fit a different circumstance or medium.

   That movie was an adapted novel.

Translations

Anagrams

• de-adapt, deadapt

English

Etymology

suitable +? -ness

Noun

suitableness (countable and uncountable, plural suitablenesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being suitable, adapted or accommodated; suitability

   Synonyms: fitness, propriety, agreeableness

   • 1871, John Morley, Voltaire

     Moreover, the modern argument in favour of the supernatural origin of the Christian religion, drawn from its suitableness to our needs and its divine response to our aspirations, must be admitted by every candid person resorting to it to be of exactly equal force in the mouth of a Mahometan or a fire-worshipper or an astrolater.

2. (countable) The result of being suitable. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “suitableness”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language