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ineptness

ineptness noun: the quality or degree of being inept.

Noun

ineptness (usually uncountable, plural ineptnesses)

  1. (usually) The quality or degree of being inept.
    • The ineptness of the novice jugglers was apparent as they frequently dropped their juggling pins.
    • 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.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IV, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/IV)

Synonyms of ineptness

All synonyms of ineptness

Forms of ineptness

pluralineptnesses

Origin of ineptness

From inept + -ness.

Questions about ineptness

What does ineptness mean?
Ineptness means the quality or degree of being inept.
What part of speech is ineptness?
Ineptness is a noun.
What is the plural of ineptness?
The plural of ineptness is ineptnesses.

Words near ineptness in the dictionary

  1. inepter
  2. ineptest
  3. ineptitude
  4. ineptitudes
  5. ineptly
  6. ineptness
  7. ineptnesses
  8. ineptocracies
  9. ineptocracy
  10. inequable
  11. inequably

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