The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unreadiness
Unreadiness \Un*read"i*ness\, n. The quality or state of being unready.
Wiktionary
unreadiness
n. A lack of readiness, or state of being unready
Usage examples of "unreadiness".
In the last months before the war when, prior to his retirement in April, the intrigues of the cliques swirled around him, some to have him named Minister of War or Commander in Chief designate in place of Joffre, others to reduce his pension or remove his friends, his diary was filled with disgust for life, for “that miserable thing, politics,” for the “clan of arrivistes,” for unreadiness and inefficiency in the army and with no great admiration for Joffre.