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noun
The state or quality of being unskillful, of lacking skill
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
a lack of cognitive skill
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: skillfulness
Broader terms: inability
Narrower terms: incoordination, disfluency, awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness, inefficiency, amateurishness
History
From unskillful + -ness.
Across languages
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