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
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
The inadequateness of the old symphonic form for translating into music imaginative conceptions arising from poems or pictures, and which necessarily must be presented in a fixed order, lies in its "recapitulation" section.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
She—perhaps McTeague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony.
From McTeague by Frank Norris
These considerations tend not only to vindicate the inadequateness of this review, but perhaps even to justify it in the eyes of the exacting reader, who may have expected a more thorough survey.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
