unsuccess

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ success.

Noun

unsuccess (countable and uncountable, plural unsuccesses)

1. A lack of success.
   • 1939, W. H. Auden, In Memory of W. B. Yeats, lines 58–61:

     With the farming of a verse
     Make a vineyard of the curse,
     Sing of human unsuccess
     In a rapture of distress