Inefficience
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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- 1 Synonym of inefficiency. countable, nonstandard, uncountable
"As the inefficience of medicine has made surgery rampant, so the efficience of osteopathy has opened a way of escape from rabid surgery and will form a rallying point for the conservatism of all schools who do not approve of the present drift to the use of the knife, but are themselves helpless, having nothing to offer in its stead."
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More examples"As the inefficience of medicine has made surgery rampant, so the efficience of osteopathy has opened a way of escape from rabid surgery and will form a rallying point for the conservatism of all schools who do not approve of the present drift to the use of the knife, but are themselves helpless, having nothing to offer in its stead."
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