inefficaciousness

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inefficaciousness - a lack of efficacy

inefficacy

ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness - lacking the power to be effective

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In particular his marked consumption of food puts him nearer to death and inefficaciousness (even before his heart attack) than to an intimidating presence.

Allegorical figurations and the political didactic in Bulworth

Said is seen as acknowledging 'Britain's great humanistic ideas', but troubled by their inefficaciousness. Etlin devotes a long footnote to disputing Said's reading of Jane Austen as implicated in 'imperialist expansion'.

In Defense of Humanism: Value in the Arts and Letters

Instead, physicians struggled, on the one hand, against competition from nonmedical practitioners, and on the other, against the indisputable fact of medicine's own inefficaciousness, even dangerousness.