Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inefficacy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inefficacy \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inefficacy
n : a lack of efficacy [syn: {inefficaciousness}] [ant: {efficacy}]
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