inadequateness
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He was burdened by an overwhelming sense of clumsy inadequateness, and though he knew he could do nothing he asked anyway, "Can I do anything for you?"
From The Lost Wagon by James Arthur Kjelgaard
Its imperfection or inadequateness in size and method I knew, but for the writing part of it, I was fully satisfied.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
The acquiescence for so many centuries in the power of the great directing organisation of Western Europe, notwithstanding its intellectual inadequateness, was the decisive expression of that rejection.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
One point, however, should be observed in any inquiry into the reasons for the inadequateness of these ages' feeling for nature; that many latent sympathies may never have found a voice.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin
She—perhaps McTeague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony.
From McTeague by Frank Norris
