INEFFICACY - Meaning and Definition of the Word
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INEFFICACY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
Pronunciation:  in'efukusee
Matching Terms:  inefficacious, inefficaciously, inefficaciousness
WordNet Dictionary  Definition: [n]  a lack of efficacy
  Synonyms: inefficaciousness  Antonyms: efficacious
ness,
efficacy  See Also: ineffectiveness, ineffectuality,
ineffectualness 
 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary  Definition: \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.                    
                                                    
                      

 
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