inefficacy

Examples

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• Attentional control can strongly influence sources of input: children are increasingly able to shift attention away from threatening stimuli and internal feelings of inefficacy; at the same time, they can more readily focus on positive information, which can lead to improved self-evaluations relating to feelings of efficacy and success.

  Academic text (1998)

• Plaintiffs may argue that their inability to learn or perform is ascribed to the inefficacy of the teacher/coach to properly instruct.

  Academic text (1991)

• As a result, it is not clear that the inefficacy of the campaigns in 1999 and 2009 was fundamentally different.

  Academic text (2013)

• It's about the inefficacy of romantic dogmas on young people's expectations.

  Miller's Girl (2024)

• Similarly, I find your arguments for the inefficacy of energy conservation less than conclusive.

  Blog text (23)

• It does, however, highlight the inefficacy of rehashing past policy approaches.

  Academic text (2009)

• The slide into rampant lawlessness and insecurity was no doubt related to the state's weakness, inefficacy, and, in some cases, even absence.

  Academic text (2004)

• The negotiated end to the Korean War indicated the inefficacy of American military intervention in Asia, and popular belief that whole nations were at risk of Communist torture had to make Buck's focus on single children seem woefully limited.

  Academic text (2012)

• In this study, Risk-Takers in some grades relied on withdrawal as a contraceptive method and might therefore benefit from emphasis on its inefficacy, in addition to encouragement to increase condom use or decrease partner numbers.

  Academic text (2005)

• In order to make such a determination, Benjamin locates the root of the latter's manifest inefficacy in the way in which it typically defines and deploys the concept of commitment or tendency (Tendenz) in the work of art.

  Academic text (2002)

Synonyms

I

inefficiency

vsinefficacy

27 4.2

A situation when work wastes time, money or effort

focuses on lack of power to achieve a specific result

I

ineffectiveness

vsinefficacy

6 5.4

Not able to produce the result you want

is the same meaning but uses a different word form

I

ineffectuality

vsinefficacy

1 9.1

A lack of ability to make plans or actions produce the wanted result

is the same idea but uses another noun form

I

inefficaciousness

vsinefficacy

9.9

The state of not producing the intended result

is the same meaning but uses a different word form

I

ineffectualness

vsinefficacy

8.4

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

is the same meaning but differs in word formation

U

unproductiveness

vsinefficacy

7.1

Not doing much useful work or making progress

is about inability to cause the intended effect rather than low output

I

inutility

vsinefficacy

• Archaic

9.9

A state of not being useful

refers to inability to produce a desired effect, not total uselessness

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 Ineffective

inefficacy

1 8.7

ineffectiveness

6 5.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology