inapplicationn.
/ɪnaplɪˈkeɪʃən/ 1. Want of application; the fact or habit of not applying oneself to one's duties.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > indiligence or remissness
slacknessc897
forswundennessc1175
sweeringa1300
lachesa1393
lachedness1484
indiligence1496
lachousness1496
slacking1542
remissness1570
dissoluteness1576
disassiduity1613
insedulity1679
slothingc1690
inapplication1721
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Inapplication, heedlesness.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Inapplication, indolence, negligence.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) II. viii. 259 The Prince excused his own inapplication on the foot of idleness.
1800 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 330 Inapplication, versatility, are, I suppose, the dangers of a mind like Henry's.
2. The condition of not applying or having no application to the case; inapplicability.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [noun] > irrelevancy
impertinency1569
irrelevancy1592
impertinence1616
inapplicability1673
inconsequentness1727
inapplicationa1806
inconsequence1842
irrelevance1842
far-fetchednessa1849
inconsequentiality1850
inappositeness1893
inconsequentialism1893
inconsequentialness1931
non-status1964
a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 146 These rules..appear to me to be very inconclusive, and much out of their place, when thus applied to prescribed forms... Besides their utter inapplication, these multiplied little rules seem [etc.].
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