Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being ineffectual; want of power to produce effect; inefficacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy.
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- noun
inefficacy
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- noun lacking the power to be effective
Etymologies
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Examples
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Imagination, "rebellion against fact," spirituality, a tendency to dream, unworldliness, the passionate love of beauty and charm, "ineffectualness" in the practical competitive life -- these, according to Matthew Arnold, when he came to lecture at
A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885
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"ineffectualness" in common life, fell rather to my father's share than my uncle's; though my uncle's "worldliness," of which he was sometimes accused, if it ever existed, was never more than skin-deep.
A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885
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It is most often to impute naivete and ineffectualness, i.e. the term is used to infantilize its target.
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What appears to me to be pathetic ineffectualness and indifference by the Indian government seems like a wise, sober, calculated response to Matt.
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Pretend cockiness is just another symptom of the ineffectualness of a man whose name the newspapers get wrong and whose advances the opposite sex finds all too easy to resist.
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The ineffectualness of the army reminded me of the portrayal of the government bureaucrats in Stanislaw Lem's book "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub".
How I got scolded by a Paul Giamatti lookalike or my review of The Crazies EAGEAGEAG 2010
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The ineffectualness of the army reminded me of the portrayal of the government bureaucrats in Stanislaw Lem's book "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub".
Archive 2010-04-01 EAGEAGEAG 2010
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So I wonder if the malaise and ineffectualness I've been complaining of has anything to do with the fact that I woke up this morning with the inside of my mouth scraped raw and my sinuses packed with cement.
if i don't die by thursday i'll be roaring friday night arachnejericho 2008
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It soon became and has remained since a national laughing stock because of its ineffectualness.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Or, as you pointed out, is this ineffectualness of Dean's a way to isolate him and break him down?
Supernatural: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid - Pink Raygun.com 2010
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