inaptness

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Apart from the tendency to convergent heredity already emphasised, there is a wider tendency to slight abnormality, a minor degree of inaptness for ordinary life in the parentage of genius.

From Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock

Then his seriousness and simplicity, like that of Biblical and Oriental writers,—a kind of childish inaptness and homeliness,—often exposes him to our keen, almost abnormal sense of the ridiculous.

From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John

From what is recorded of the infancy of Chatterton, parents may be satisfied that an inaptness to learn in childhood, is far from being a prognostic of future dullness.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis

The fault is not in any inaptness of the images, nor in the mere vulgarity of the things themselves, but in that of the associations they awaken.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

In this hope he was deceived by his own inaptness and his adversary's readiness.

From The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)