ineptness

English

Etymology

From inept +‎ -ness.

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Noun

ineptness (usually uncountable, plural ineptnesses)

  1. The quality or degree of being inept.
    The ineptness of the novice jugglers was apparent as they frequently dropped their juggling pins.
    • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IV, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎[1]:
      Today has been a day of folly, stupidity, and ineptness. The time is now eleven o'clock in the evening, and I am sitting in my room and thinking.

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