Usually means: Lack of skill or competence.
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  1. improficiency: Merriam-Webster
  2. improficiency: Wordnik
  3. improficiency: Wiktionary
  4. Improficiency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. Improficiency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  6. improficiency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. improficiency: FreeDictionary.org

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▸ noun:  Lack of proficiency.

Similar:
unproficiency, nonproficiency, inexpertness, inexpertise, noncompetency, nonmastery, inexperience, unskill, unfamiliarity, imperception, more...

Opposite:
proficiency, competence, skillfulness, expertise

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Similar:
unproficiency, nonproficiency, inexpertness, inexpertise, noncompetency, nonmastery, inexperience, unskill, unfamiliarity, imperception, more...

Opposite:
proficiency, competence, skillfulness, expertise



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