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inaptitude|ɪnˈæptɪtjuːd|
[in-3.]
Want of aptitude.
1. Unfitness, unsuitableness, inappropriateness.
a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 149 Such as are Cause, Effect..Equality, Inequality, Aptitude, Inaptitude, Symmetry, Asymmetry. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 98 A moral and almost physical inaptitude of the man to the function. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. (1875) 194 Our excessive neglect of the idea and our consequent inaptitude for it.
2. Unreadiness, unskilfulness, unhandiness.
1620E. Blount Horæ Subsec. 103 Inaptitude to the former [honourable expences] shewes a man to be of a poore and ignoble spirit. 1715–16Steele Town-Talk No. 8 This inaptitude is too notorious to have left a nation..the least room for reporting any advantageous circumstance of this remarkable person. 1834Edin. Rev. LIX. 54 There was such inaptitude in the English people. 1884West. Morn. News 5 Sept. 4/5 Rags of fish and tough meat lead people daily to believe that national cookery is another name for old inaptitude. |