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Unfitness; ineptitude. The feebleness and miserable ineptness of infancy. Dr. H. More.

Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of smoothness or equability; deviation; unsteadiness, as of the weather, feelings, etc. Inequality of air is ever an enemy to health. Bacon.

Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.

The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures. It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. Paley.

A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.

ality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness. I. Watts. Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. Glanvill.

The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak.

Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.

being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfastness; resoluteness; unchangeableness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and…

The quality or state of being infrangible; infrangibleness.

Unsuitableness; unaptness; unfitness; inability. [Obs.] Barrow.

The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. Bp. Hall.

The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness. Norris.

Unpleassantness; disagreeableness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Want of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [R.]

The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness.

The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness. Eagerness for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.

Insatiableness. T. Grander.

The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness.

The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparableness. Locke.