ineptness

English

Etymology

From inept +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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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.

Synonyms

• (quality or degree of being inept): awkwardness, incompetence, ineptitude, unfitness, unsuitability

Translations

being inept

• Bulgarian: неспособност (bg) f (nesposobnost)
• German: Unfähigkeit (de) f (inability); Untauglichkeit f (unfitness)
• Italian: inettitudine (it) f