Unskillfulness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being unskillful, of lacking skill uncountable

    "Grammar is perhaps the most comprehensive of all studies; but it is chiefly owing to the unskillfulness of instructors, and to the errors and defects of the systems in use, that it is commonly regarded as the most dry and difficult. 5. ""

  2. 2
    a lack of cognitive skill wordnet

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basenessdeficiencyevilnessfailureimperfectioninability

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"Grammar is perhaps the most comprehensive of all studies; but it is chiefly owing to the unskillfulness of instructors, and to the errors and defects of the systems in use, that it is commonly regarded as the most dry and difficult. 5. ""

Etymology

From unskillful + -ness.

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