unpreparedness

English

Etymology

From unprepared +‎ -ness.

Noun

unpreparedness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being unprepared.

   The presentation went badly due to the team's unpreparedness.

   • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 62:

     The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.

Translations

state of being unprepared

• Finnish: valmistautumattomuus
• Russian: негото́вность (ru) f (negotóvnostʹ), неподгото́вленность (ru) f (nepodgotóvlennostʹ)

References

• unpreparedness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “unpreparedness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.