inefficiency

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

inefficiency
    n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency [ant:
         {efficiency}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Inefficiency \In`ef*fi"cien*cy\, n.
   The quality of being inefficient; lack of power or energy
   sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity;
   as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "inefficiency":
      disability, disablement, disqualification, imbecility, inability,
      inadeptness, inadequacy, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness,
      incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence,
      incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality,
      ineptitude, ineptness, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency,
      legal incapacity, maladjustment, maladroitness, mediocrity,
      minority, pedestrianism, rustiness, skill-lessness,
      thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness,
      undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness,
      unintelligence, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness,
      untrainedness, wardship

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