English > ineptitude: 2 senses > noun 2, attribute| Meaning | Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful. |
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| Synonym | worthlessness |
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| Narrower | damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam | Something of little value |
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| fecklessness | worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual |
| groundlessness, idleness | The quality of lacking substance or value |
| paltriness, sorriness | worthlessness due to insignificance |
| shoddiness, trashiness | The quality of being cheaply imitative of something better |
| valuelessness | Having none of the properties that endow something with value |
| vanity, emptiness | The quality of being valueless or futile |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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| Opposite | worth | The quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful |
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| Spanish | demérito, desmerecimiento, ineptitud |
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| Catalan | demèrit, desmèrit, ineptitud |
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