inaptituden.
/ɪnˈaptɪtjuːd/ Want of aptitude.
1. Unfitness, unsuitableness, inappropriateness.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun]
inconvenience1413
uncompetence?1541
unaptness1548
improperty1555
unaptness1557
unproperness1561
impertinency1573
unmeetness1574
disagreement1580
unfitnessa1586
unsuitablenessa1586
incongruity1597
inconvenientness1600
improperness1612
indispositiona1613
insuitability1612
ineptitude1615
impertinence1616
inconcinnity1616
infelicity1617
unbeseemingness1623
ineptness1633
impertinentness1645
incompatibility1659
incompetibilitya1660
disaccommodationa1676
indecorousness1681
indisposednessa1684
inaptitudea1688
impropriety1697
wrongness1726
ineligibility1795
inaptness1814
unsuitability1814
unappropriateness1838
unadaptedness1846
inappropriateness1847
unfittingness1861
unbefittingness1865
ineligibleness1881
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > inability or inaptitude
indisposition1440
unaptitude1545
inaptitude1790
a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. ii. 149 Such as are Cause, Effect..Equality, Inequality, Aptitude, Inaptitude, Symmetry, Asymmetry.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 67 A moral and almost physical inaptitude of the man to the function. View more context for this quotation
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 161 Our excessive neglect of the idea, and consequent inaptitude for it.
2. Unreadiness, unskilfulness, unhandiness.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inaptitude or awkwardness
unaptness1557
awkness1587
untowardness1598
inaptitude1620
unhandiness1706
inaptness1814
blunderheadedness1835
muffishness1849
muffism1854
dufferdom1856
dufferism1871
1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 103 Inaptitude to the former [honourable expences] shewes a man to be of a poore and ignoble spirit.
1715–16 R. Steele 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.
1834 Edinb. Rev. 59 54 There was such inaptitude in the English people.
1884 Western Morning 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.
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