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Inoperant vs Inoperancy - What's the difference?

inoperant | inoperancy |

As a adjective inoperant

is not operant.

As a noun inoperancy is

the quality of being inoperant or inoperative, of lacking the power to be effective or effectual.

inoperant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not operant.

    • inoperancy

    English

    Noun

    (inoperancies)
  • The quality of being inoperant or inoperative, of lacking the power to be effective or effectual.
  • * 1935: T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets , "Burnt Norton"
    • Inoperancy of the world of spirit;
  • * The inoperancy of the legal system for such issues.

    • Synonyms

    * ineffectiveness * ineffectuality, ineffectualness * inoperativeness

    Related terms

    * incapacity * inefficacy * inefficiency