unpreparedness

English

Etymology

From unprepared +‎ -ness.

Noun

unpreparedness (uncountable)

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.

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