inaptnessn.
The quality of being inapt; inaptitude.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inaptitude or awkwardness
unaptness1557
awkness1587
untowardness1598
inaptitude1620
unhandiness1706
inaptness1814
blunderheadedness1835
muffishness1849
muffism1854
dufferdom1856
dufferism1871
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun]
inconvenience1413
uncompetence?1541
unaptness1548
improperty1555
unaptness1557
unproperness1561
impertinency1573
unmeetness1574
disagreement1580
unfitnessa1586
unsuitablenessa1586
incongruity1597
inconvenientness1600
improperness1612
indispositiona1613
insuitability1612
ineptitude1615
impertinence1616
inconcinnity1616
infelicity1617
unbeseemingness1623
ineptness1633
impertinentness1645
incompatibility1659
incompetibilitya1660
disaccommodationa1676
indecorousness1681
indisposednessa1684
inaptitudea1688
impropriety1697
wrongness1726
ineligibility1795
inaptness1814
unsuitability1814
unappropriateness1838
unadaptedness1846
inappropriateness1847
unfittingness1861
unbefittingness1865
ineligibleness1881
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ii. 54 The Poor Man..unable to subdue Impatience, through inaptness to perceive General distress in his particular lot. View more context for this quotation
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §49. 186 Some sentence..to which it may attach itself with not more obvious inaptness.
1844 W. H. Mill Serm. Tempt. Christ iii. 68 That luxury..which..produces of itself inaptness for spiritual objects.
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