Meanings
plural inefficiences
- countablenonstandarduncountableSynonym of inefficiency.
1 more example
As the inefficience of medicine has made surgery rampant, so the efficience of osteopathy has opened a way of escape from rabid surgery and will form a rallying point for the conservatism of all schools who do not approve of the present drift to the use of the knife, but are themselves helpless, having nothing to offer in its stead.
1911, The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, page 177Synonyms: inefficiency
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of inefficiency.
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