About The Word Inefficacy
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Inefficacy
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What's The Definition Of Inefficacy?
[n] a lack of efficacy
Synonyms | Synonyms for Inefficacy: inefficaciousness Related Terms | Find terms related to Inefficacy: See Also | ineffectiveness | ineffectuality | ineffectualness Inefficacy In Webster's Dictionary \In*ef"fi*ca*cy\, n. [L. inefficacia. See {In-} not,
and {Efficacy}.]
Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect;
inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness;
fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means.
The seeming inefficacy of censures. --Bp. Hall.
The inefficacy was soon proved, like that of many
similar medicines. --James
Gregory.
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