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ineptitude|ɪˈnɛptɪtjuːd|
[ad. L. ineptitūdo, n. of quality f. ineptus inept: see -tude. Cf. obs. F. ineptitude (15th c. in Godef.).]
The quality of being inept.
1. Want of aptitude; inaptness, unsuitableness, unfitness to or for something; incapacity.
1615Crooke Body of Man 507 A ineptitude to learne [sheweth] a drie and a hard braine. 1640Wilkins New Planet ii. (1684) 115 There is in it, and so likewise in the other Planets, an ineptitude to motion. c1645Howell Lett. I. i. ix. 17 A strong conjecture of the aptnesse or ineptitude of ones capacity. 1710Steele Tatler No. 203 ⁋1 That Ineptitude for Society, which is frequently the Fault of us Scholars. 1885N. & Q. 6th Ser. XI. 110/1 An endeavour to imitate phonetically the Red Indian name of the plant..a process for which the French usually show an extraordinary ineptitude.
2. Want of mental capacity; folly, silliness. With an and pl.: A foolish act or remark.
1656Blount Glossogr., Ineptitude, unaptness, fondness, foolishness, trifling, vainness. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. ii. 42 Here are a multitude of Errors or Ineptitudes together. 1832Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 55 [He] lived no day of his life without doing and saying more than one pretentious ineptitude. 1885Spectator 18 July 948/1 This..goes far to justify Buckle's strictures on the ineptitude of statesmen. |