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UNSKILLFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unskillfulness mean? 

UNSKILLFULNESS (noun)
  The noun UNSKILLFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. a lack of cognitive skillplay

  Familiarity information: UNSKILLFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNSKILLFULNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A lack of cognitive skill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("unskillfulness" is a kind of...):

inability (lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unskillfulness"):

incoordination (a lack of coordination of movements)

disfluency (lack of skillfulness in speaking or writing)

awkwardness; clumsiness; ineptitude; ineptness; maladroitness; slowness (unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training)

inefficiency (unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency)

amateurishness (something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency)

Antonym:

skillfulness (the state of being cognitively skillful)

Derivation:

unskillful (poorly done)


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