From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ineptitude \In*ept"i*tude\, noun [L. ineptitudo.]
1. The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness.
That ineptitude for society, which is frequently the fault of us scholars. --Tatler.
2. Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: {awkwardness}, {clumsiness}, {ineptness}, {maladroitness}, {slowness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "ineptitude": Urdummheit, absurdity, asininity, awkwardness, battiness, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, clumsiness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, desipience, disability, disablement, disqualification, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, futility, gaucherie, giddiness, goofiness, idiocy, ignorance, imbecility, impoliticalness, impoliticness, inability, inadequacy, inadvisability, inanity, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, inefficiency, ineptness, inexpedience, inexpediency, infancy, infelicity, inferiority, inopportuneness, insanity, insufficiency, irrationality, lackbrainedness, lackwittedness, legal incapacity, low IQ, lunacy, madness, maladroitness, mental weakness, mindlessness, minority, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, primal stupidity, queerness, reasonlessness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, slackmindedness, slackwittedness, stupidity, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, undesirability, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, ungainliness, unintellectuality, unintelligence, unmeetness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unwisdom, unwiseness, uselessness, wackiness, wardship, weirdness, witlessness, worthlessness, wrongness, zaniness, zanyism
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