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Ineffectuality

Ineffectualness.

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Broader term 2

Impotence 76% connected

Alt. of Impotency

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Impotency 76% connected

The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.

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Narrower term 2

Inefficaciousness 76% connected

Want of effect, or of power to produce the effect; inefficacy.

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Inefficacy 76% connected

Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of med…

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Derivationally related 2

Ineffectual 74% connected

Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Ineffectual 74% connected

Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient.

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Synonym 2

Ineffectiveness 92% connected

Quality of being ineffective.

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Ineffectualness 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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