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Ineptness vs Inertness - What's the difference?

ineptness | inertness |

As nouns the difference between ineptness and inertness

is that ineptness is the quality or degree of being inept while inertness is want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.

ineptness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality or degree of being inept.
  • :The ineptness of the novice jugglers was apparent as they frequently dropped their juggling pins.

    • Synonyms

    *(quality or degree of being inept ): awkwardness, incompetence, ineptitude, unfitness, unsuitability

    inertness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.
  • Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.
  • (chemistry) Quality of being unreactive with other chemical compounds or elements.

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