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Definition of Ineptness
1. Noun. Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.
Generic synonyms: Unskillfulness
Specialized synonyms: Rustiness
Derivative terms: Awkward, Awkward, Clumsy, Inept, Maladroit, Slow
2. Noun. The quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose.
Specialized synonyms: Inappropriateness, Unworthiness, Unfitness, Inconvenience
Generic synonyms: Quality
Derivative terms: Inept, Inept, Unsuitable, Unsuitable, Unsuitable, Unsuitable, Unsuitable
Antonyms: Suitability, Suitableness
Definition of Ineptness
1. n. Unfitness; ineptitude.
Definition of Ineptness
1. Noun. The quality or degree of being inept. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ineptness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineptness
Literary usage of Ineptness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Short Story Writers by Blanche Colton Williams (1920)
"the shams and weaknesses attendant upon ineptness in literature in art, ineptness
joined to pretense. In this instance, she lets fly her barbed shaft ..."
2. The Loyalists of America and Their Times: From 1620 to 1816 by Egerton Ryerson (1880)
"Their " lameness" and " ineptness" and " impotence" plainly arose from ...
We forget not our ineptness as to those approaches ; we at present owne such ..."
3. How We Think by John Dewey (1910)
"The gullibility of specialized scholars when out of their own lines, their
extravagant habits of inference and speech, their ineptness in reaching ..."
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