ineptitude

ineptitude
    n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn:
         {awkwardness}, {clumsiness}, {ineptness}, {ineptitude},
         {maladroitness}, {slowness}]
    2: having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful;
       "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits
       of their worthlessness" [syn: {worthlessness}, {ineptitude}]
       [ant: {worth}]
    

Ineptitude \In*ept"i*tude\, n. [L. ineptitudo.]
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   1. The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude;
      unsuitableness.
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            That ineptitude for society, which is frequently the
            fault of us scholars.                 --Tatler.
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   2. Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness.
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113 Moby Thesaurus words for "ineptitude":
      Urdummheit, absurdity, asininity, awkwardness, battiness,
      brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, clumsiness,
      crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, desipience,
      disability, disablement, disqualification, eccentricity, fatuity,
      fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness,
      frivolity, frivolousness, futility, gaucherie, giddiness,
      goofiness, idiocy, ignorance, imbecility, impoliticalness,
      impoliticness, inability, inadequacy, inadvisability, inanity,
      inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, incapability,
      incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency,
      incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, inefficiency, ineptness,
      inexpedience, inexpediency, infancy, infelicity, inferiority,
      inopportuneness, insanity, insufficiency, irrationality,
      lackbrainedness, lackwittedness, legal incapacity, low IQ, lunacy,
      madness, maladroitness, mental weakness, mindlessness, minority,
      niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, primal stupidity, queerness,
      reasonlessness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness,
      slackmindedness, slackwittedness, stupidity, thoughtlessness,
      triflingness, triviality, undesirability, unfitness, unfittingness,
      unfortunateness, ungainliness, unintellectuality, unintelligence,
      unmeetness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unseasonableness,
      unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness,
      unwisdom, unwiseness, uselessness, wackiness, wardship, weirdness,
      witlessness, worthlessness, wrongness, zaniness, zanyism