Synonyms for inefficiency
ˌɪn ɪˈfɪʃ ən siin·ef·fi·cien·cy

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1. inefficiency

   Synonyms:
   failure, inaction, ineffectiveness, inutility, powerlessness, uselessness

   Antonyms:
   action, agency, effect, execution, force, influence, operation, performance, procedure, result

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1. inefficiencynoun

   unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency

   Antonyms:
   efficiency

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1. • Unskillfulness

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1. inefficiencynoun

   Synonyms:
   weakness, impotence, inefficacy, powerlessness

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1. List of paraphrases for "inefficiency":

   ineffectiveness, inefficacy, ineffective

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1. Eugene McCarthy:

   The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

2. Al Gore:

   Information technology gives us the means to harvest the enormous opportunities represented by inefficiency, it is relatively easy now to design and build zero carbon buildings. The savings in energy, material costs and the reductions in global warming pollution are not minor. We’re talking about 50, 60, 70, 80 even 90 percent savings in category after category.

3. Brett Schaefer:

   If he is proposing giving these resources to the U.N. system, it would represent a massive expansion of resources to organizations that have a troubling history of mismanagement and inefficiency, in 2018, global GDP was $85 trillion. Total revenue for the U.N. system in 2018 was $56 billion. Moreover, we have seen the World Health Organization badly mishandle the response to COVID-19 by trusting information from China. Why that experience would give governments confidence to give such resources to the UN is a mystery.

4. Iqbal Athas:

   Inefficiency, mediocrity, and infighting within the government contributed to last week's attack.

5. From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide):

   We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.