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Keywords: fruitlessness, ineffectualness, futility, inefficiency, uselessness

Lack of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means.

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a lack of efficacy

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