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Ineffectuality

Ineffectuality \In`ef*fec`tu*al"i*ty\, n. Ineffectualness. [R.]

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ineffectuality

n. The state or condition of being ineffectual.

WordNet
ineffectuality

n. lacking the power to be effective [syn: ineffectiveness, ineffectualness] [ant: effectiveness]

Usage examples of "ineffectuality".

This was not ordinary human ineffectuality or pain raised to the level of despair.

She fought for him with the same grim and secretly hopeless determination which had compelled her to study medicine as if it were an act of rage against the ineffectuality of her parents-a man and woman who had understood nothing about life except death, and had coveted the thing they understood with the lust of lovers.

The resounding ineffectuality of the search it had instigated in no way dampened its determination to press on.

It was as though the uselessness of her hands had infected her entire life, for there had come to be a sense of damage and ineffectuality about her.

But the mere fact that you failed then pointed a finger at your ineffectuality, because it showed that you lacked even the ability to sense so many of those with talents—of the Earth variety.

The prize Tranzi projects, the UN and EU, are staggering under a burden of incompetence, ineffectuality and corruption.