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单词 inefficiency
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inefficiencyn.

/ɪnɪˈfɪʃənsi/
Etymology: formed as inefficient adj. + -ency suffix: compare efficiency n.
Want of efficiency; inability or failure to accomplish something; ineffectiveness, inefficient character.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > inefficacy
weakness1526
uneffectualness1598
inefficacy1623
inefficaciousness1646
ineffectualness1650
ineffectuality1670
inefficacity1721
inefficiency1749
inefficience1797
effeteness1862
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 20 July (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1373 Venice..owes its security to its neutrality and inefficacy.
a1761 Bp. E. Law Consid. State World ii. (R.) Numerous texts affirm this total insensibility and inefficiency of all such entities in the most absolute terms.
1817 B. R. Haydon in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. 474 Relapsing for a time to languid inefficiency.
1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. viii. 504 The scandalous inefficiency of the Government of Lewis XV.
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