ineffectiveness \in`effect"iveness\, n.
   quality of being ineffective.
   1913 webster

ineffectiveness
     n : lacking the power to be effective syn: ineffectualness, ineffectuality
         ant: effectiveness
see also:
ineffectualness ineffectuality effectiveness 

80 moby thesaurus words for "ineffectiveness":
   absurdity, aimlessness, bootlessness, counterproductiveness,
   counterproductivity, emptiness, failure, fatuity, fecklessness,
   forcelessness, fruitlessness, futility, hollowness, impotence,
   inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inanity, inaptitude, inaptness,
   inattentiveness, incapability, incapacity, incompetence,
   incompetency, indexterity, ineffectuality, ineffectualness,
   inefficaciousness, inefficacy, inefficiency, ineptness, invalidity,
   lack of force, lack of influence, lack of magnetism,
   lack of personality, lack of power, maladjustment, maladroitness,
   meaninglessness, mediocrity, no say, nugacity, otiosity,
   pedestrianism, pointlessness, powerlessness, profitlessness,
   purposelessness, rat race, rustiness, skill-lessness, the absurd,
   thoughtlessness, triviality, unaptness, unauthoritativeness,
   uncleverness, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness,
   unfitness, unfittedness, uninfluentiality, unintelligence,
   unpersuasiveness, unproductiveness, unproficiency, unprofitability,
   unprofitableness, unschooledness, unskillfulness, untrainedness,
   uselessness, valuelessness, vanity, vicious circle, weakness,
   worthlessness