Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Inefficiency \In`ef*fi"cien*cy\, n.
The quality of being inefficient; lack of power or energy
sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity;
as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
inefficiency
n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency [ant:
efficiency]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
45 Moby Thesaurus words for "inefficiency":
disability, disablement, disqualification, imbecility, inability,
inadeptness, inadequacy, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness,
incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence,
incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality,
ineptitude, ineptness, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency,
legal incapacity, maladjustment, maladroitness, mediocrity,
minority, pedestrianism, rustiness, skill-lessness,
thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness,
undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness,
unintelligence, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness,
untrainedness, wardship