1701, "quality or condition of being inaccurate," from inaccurate + abstract noun suffix -cy. As "an instance of being inaccurate, that which is inaccurate," 1704.
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inaccurate adj.
"not exact or correct," 1690s, from in- (1) "not" + accurate. Unaccurate is attested from 1670s. Related: Inaccurately (1660s).
-cy
abstract noun suffix of quality or rank, from Latin -cia, -tia, from Greek -kia, -tia, from abstract ending -ia (see -ia) + stem ending -c- or -t-. The native correspondents are -ship, -hood.