ineffectuality

Examples

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• Albert was one of Johnson's men at the convention; he understood the demonstration was an affront to the president, but as a very small man wielding a big gavel to no effect whatever, he looked the essence of ineffectuality.

  Blog text (25)

• Party leader Haim Oron's purported lack of charisma was duly noted, but so was the ineffectuality of the campaign's message, which had focused on an economic platform of "social responsibility."

  Academic text (2011)

• Can one imagine a more telling admission than this of the business community's ineffectuality in dealing with the human rights problem?

  Academic text (1995)

• The tally was $4,100 for a few letters and phone calls that amounted to little more than a record of my lawyer's ineffectuality.

  Academic text (1994)

• Further, the 2008 Mumbai attack, which penetrated the heart of India, was a particularly embarrassing episode; the failure to prevent it and the feeble response to it demonstrated the ineffectuality of India's security forces.

  Academic text (2012)

• Who has not listened to the endless media commentary that belabors the unpopularity and ineffectuality of Bush, never hearing a mention of the even dimmer public opinion of Congress, and certainly never the fact that the majority of people prefer the company of used car salesmen to that of journalists?

  Blog text (29)

• Considering rhetoric speech only, Lawrence N. Danson suggests that "the paradoxical ineffectuality of the play's rhetoric" -- the stately set speeches unintegrated into the dramatic action -- represents the problem both characters and playwright must face: how to break out of rhetoric and achieve the proper tragic action.

  Academic text (2000)

• His complaints about the ineffectuality of the new policy were echoed by several members of the team.

• The ineffectuality of the proposed solutions frustrated the employees who were seeking real change.

Synonyms

I

ineffectiveness

vsineffectuality

6 5.4

Not able to produce the result you want

is the same idea but expressed with a different term

I

inefficacy

vsineffectuality

1 8.7

Unable to produce the wanted result

is the same concept but uses an alternate word form

I

inefficaciousness

vsineffectuality

9.9

The state of not producing the intended result

is the same meaning but uses a different word form

I

ineffectualness

vsineffectuality

8.4

A lack of ability to make something have the result you want

is the same meaning but differs only by word formation

U

unproductiveness

vsineffectuality

7.1

Not doing much useful work or making progress

focuses on inability to cause a specific desired effect rather than general output

Antonyms

E

effectiveness

140 3.5

The ability to make something work as planned

E

efficacy

• Formal

41 7.4

The ability to produce the wanted result

How Effective

success

∞ 1.0

effectiveness

140 3.5

ineffectuality

1 9.1

uselessness

6 4.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology