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

An inadequate idea, however, is not in itself an error; it becomes such only when, unconscious of its defectiveness, we take it for complete and true.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

Why? because it is simply a sign of defectiveness in the creature which the ages will rectify.

From Autobiographical Sketches by Besant, Annie Wood

They are only alluded to here to indicate that there are degrees in the defectiveness of eyes to colour.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.