ineptitude

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English

Etymology

From Latin ineptitūdō.[1] By surface analysis, inept +‎ -itude.

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Noun

ineptitude (countable and uncountable, plural ineptitudes)

  1. The quality of being inept.
    • 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian‎:
      The curse has been Spanish ineptitude feeding Gibraltarian intransigence. Border hold-ups are counterproductive to winning hearts and minds, as were blundering Argentinian landings on the outer Falklands.
  2. An instance of being inept.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      He droned on with platitudes and ineptitudes while Malone whispered to Enid that if Alasha was a fair specimen of the population it was just as well that his native land was safely engulfed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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  1. ^ “ineptitude, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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