inoperativeness

-- The inoperativeness of revivalism was occasionally admitted also by its friends within the General Synod.

American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) 1894

Lord Macaulay, in a celebrated passage of one of his early essays (let me add that it was one which he did not himself choose to reprint), gives expression to the doctrine of the absolute inoperativeness of great men, more unqualified, I should think, than has been given to it by any writer of equal abilities.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839