unaptnessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈap(t)nəs/, U.S. /ˌənˈæp(t)nəs/ a. 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
1557 Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary c. 3 §1 The same Disability and Unaptness notwithstanding, the same unable and unmeet Persons..have been also released.
1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iv. xviii. sig. T3 And languishing luxuriousnes had spred Feeble vnaptnes ouer all the land.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ix. 291 The trees grow but low..by reason of the vnaptnesse of the soyle.
1652 W. Hartley Infant-baptism 12 The prohibition hath peculiar relation to the unaptness of the sacrificers.
1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 739 That seminal root..hindred by the unaptness of the place.
1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence ii. 98 He often fails as to his Means, as well as to his End, I don't mean as to their unaptness.
b. Const. for, to (with noun or infinitive).
ΘΚΠ
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
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Prosedanium, a disease which happeneth to..beastes, whiche is vnaptenesse to generacion through to muche labour.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 165 M. Blackwels simplicitie and vnaptnesse to gouerne.
1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 55 The naturall unaptness hee has for that exercise.
1670 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. & Reflexions upon Psalms in Coll. Tracts (1727) 729 An unaptness to be confident of what they see and feel.
a1688 W. Clagett Seventeen Serm. (1699) 216 There will be laziness and slothfulness, and unaptness for instruction.
1860 G. Rawlinson tr. Herodotus Hist. IV. ix. lxx. 442 (note) A general unaptness for the mechanical arts?
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