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Inaptitude

Inaptitude \In*apt"i*tude\, n. [In- + aptitude: cf. F. inaptitude. Cf. Ineptitude.] Lack of aptitude.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inaptitude

1610s, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + aptitude.

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inaptitude

n. The quality of being inapt.

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inaptitude

n. a lack of aptitude [ant: aptitude]

Usage examples of "inaptitude".

We owed so much to Herbert’s ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.