What does ineptness mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slownessnoun

    unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

  2. unsuitability, unsuitableness, ineptnessnoun

    the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose

Wiktionary

  1. ineptnessnoun

    The quality or degree of being inept.

ChatGPT

  1. ineptness

    Ineptness refers to a lack of skill, competence, or ability in a particular area or task. It can also be associated with clumsiness, inefficiency or inappropriate behavior. It's a characteristic of someone who makes mistakes or fails to accomplish desired goals due to their inability to perform effectively.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ineptnessnoun

    unfitness; ineptitude

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ineptness in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ineptness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of ineptness in a Sentence

  1. Blaise Ingoglia:

    The state of Florida is currently in a state of emergency because of the ineptness and the incompetence of the federal government when it comes to immigration policy, in fact, I would say that someone should declare the federal government itself its own disaster area.

  2. Justice Warren E. Burger:

    ... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.

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