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Inaptitude

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Lack of talent or ability.

n. The quality or state of being inappropriate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. ineptitude

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Lack of aptitude.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Lack of aptitude or adaptation; unsuitableness; unfitness.

n. Lack of readiness; unskilfulness; awkwardness; unhandiness: as, inaptitude in workmanship. See ineptitude.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a lack of aptitude

Word Usage

"While there seem to be more and more programs to encourage girls who are interested in the sciences in engineering, old attitudes about the aptitude (or more accurately, inaptitude) of women in technical fields seem to be a long time in dying."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

inability

Hyponym

incapableness talentlessness incapability

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

headiness hecan misjudgments half-heartedness powerand inexpertness slothfulness disorganization depository action