Always do the leg work mate.
Look up their etymology.
Look at the synonym lists for both, read full descriptions from multiple sources.
A lack of attention, initiative and ability is key to both definitions and over the years they have been used so interchangeably that they are tied together.
Gormless began roughly as "without attention/heed" and feckless began as "ineffective" basically.
So yeah, pretty much the same shit different day.
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