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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Inefficiency \In`ef*fi"cien*cy\, n. The quality of being inefficient; lack of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

inefficiency n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency [ant: efficiency]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "inefficiency": disability, disablement, disqualification, imbecility, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineptitude, ineptness, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency, legal incapacity, maladjustment, maladroitness, mediocrity, minority, pedestrianism, rustiness, skill-lessness, thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, untrainedness, wardship