Definition of "unaptness" [unaptness]

• The state or character of being unapt, in any sense. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In its unreadiness and unaptness to receive instruction in and about the concernments of it."
• "I hate the look of disorder, because it shows either a contempt for details or an unaptness for spiritual life."
• "The bent of his intellect was classical, as we see in his astonishing _Observations on the Art of English Poesy_, in which he sets out to demonstrate "the unaptness of rhyme in poesy.""