Definition of Ineffectualness

1. Noun. Lacking the power to be effective.


Definition of Ineffectualness

1. n. Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy.

Definition of Ineffectualness

1. Noun. inefficacy ¹

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Definition of Ineffectualness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineffectualness

ineffable
ineffableness
ineffablenesses
ineffably
ineffaceability
ineffaceable
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ineffectible
ineffective
ineffectively
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ineffectuality
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ineffectually
ineffectualness
ineffervescence
ineffervescent
inefficacies
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inefficiencies
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inefficiently
inefficients
inegalitarian
inegalitarianism

Literary usage of Ineffectualness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Italian Characters in the Epoch of Unification (1890)
"The short-lived republic of Tuscany lasted from February to April, when it died a natural death of ineffectualness. ..."

2. A Writer's Recollections by Humphry Ward (1919)
"Unworldliness/ ' rebellion against fact,' ' ineffectualness' in common life, fell rather to my father's share than my uncle's; though my uncle's ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"Ineffectualness, n. Inefficacy. Inefficacious, a. ... Ineffectualness. Inefficient! a. Ineffective, lacking in efficiency, weak, feeble. Inefficiency, n. ..."

4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"He repeated to himself the lines of Shelley's fragment. Its alternation of sad human ineffectualness with vast inhuman cycles ..."

5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"Its alternation of sad human ineffectualness with vast inhuman cycles of activity chilled him, and he forgot his own human and ineffectual grieving. ..."

6. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1917)
"... and receptiveness for alertness and creative force; its traces of a paralysing pantheism and fatalism; its ineffectualness; its atrophy of will. ..."

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