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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being inept; unfitness; awkwardness; ineptitude.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Unfitness; ineptitude.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality or degree of being inept.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose
  • noun unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

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