Similar words: effectiveness, cost effectiveness, ineffective, ineffectively, effective, protectiveness, effectively, cost-effective. Meaning: [‚ɪnɪ'fektɪvnɪs] 
n. lacking the power to be effective.
n. lacking the power to be effective. 31. In some cases, they left government positions frustrated by the corruption and ineffectiveness they witnessed.
32. The goal is to build public support for the police — no simple task, given itsreputation for corruption and ineffectiveness.
33. The interpretation of the law and ineffectiveness of the revised law are continually mentioned by bloggers.
34. The Bush administration never resolved this question in its own policies, and the consequence was incoherence and ineffectiveness .
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