ineptness
nounEtymology From inept + -ness.
1
Usually The quality or degree of being inept.
- The ineptness of the novice jugglers was apparent as they frequently dropped their juggling pins.
- Today has been a day of folly, stupidity, and ineptness. The time is now eleven o'clock in the evening, and I am sitting in my room and thinking.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IV, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/IV):
- Synonyms
- awkwardness, incompetence, ineptitude, unfitness, unsuitability