defectiveness

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When I look at photographs of my 22-year-old self, so convinced of her own defectiveness, I see a perfectly normal girl and I think about aliens.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2016

The standard reactions to her artistic defectiveness were masochistic joy and a perverse desire to share the spectacularly failed artwork with others.

From Slate • Jan. 23, 2013

By contrasting it with the ideal we suggest its imperfections; by protruding it as an example, we turn on its defectiveness the microscope of criticism.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

This flattening under test naturally drew attention to the defectiveness of girder stays.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

And this defectiveness of nature is met by the truth, which, while we aspire, we know—that God will fulfil all noble desire in a life to come.

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)