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inefficiency|ɪnɪˈfɪʃənsɪ|
[f. as next + -ency: cf. efficiency.]
Want of efficiency; inability or failure to accomplish something; ineffectiveness, inefficient character.
1749Chesterfield Lett. (1774) II. 187 Venice..owes its security to its neutrality and inefficiency. a1761Law The. Relig. ii. (R.), Numerous texts affirm this total insensibility and inefficiency of all such entities in the most absolute terms. 1817B. R. Haydon in Four C. Eng. Lett. 474 Relapsing for a time to languid inefficiency. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. II. viii. 504 The scandalous inefficiency of the Government of Lewis XV. |