Meaning of INEPTITUDE
| Pronunciation: | | in'epti`tood
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| | Definition: | | [n] unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training |
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| | Synonyms: | | awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
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| | See Also: | | unskillfulness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*ept"i*tude\, n. [L. ineptitudo.]
1. The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude;
unsuitableness.
That ineptitude for society, which is frequently the
fault of us scholars. --Tatler.
2. Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurdity, asininity, awkwardness, battiness, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, clumsiness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, desipience, disability, disablement, disqualification, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, futility, gaucherie, giddiness, goofiness, idiocy, ignorance, imbecility, impoliticalness, impoliticness, inability, inadequacy, inadvisability, inanity, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, inefficiency, ineptness, inexpedience, inexpediency, infancy, infelicity, inferiority, inopportuneness, insanity, insufficiency, irrationality, lackbrainedness, lackwittedness, legal incapacity, low IQ, lunacy, madness, maladroitness, mental weakness, mindlessness, minority, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, primal stupidity, queerness, reasonlessness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, slackmindedness, slackwittedness, stupidity, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, undesirability, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, ungainliness, unintellectuality, unintelligence, unmeetness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unwisdom, unwiseness, Urdummheit, uselessness, wackiness, wardship, weirdness, witlessness, worthlessness, wrongness, zaniness, zanyism |
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