The condition or quality of being useless or ineffective:
bootlessness, fruitlessness, futility, unavailingness, unprofitableness, vainness, vanity. See thrive, usedThe condition or state of being incapable of accomplishing or effecting anything:
helplessness, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficacy, powerlessness. See affect, strong
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