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

Its defectiveness of numbers did not constitute its only weakness.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John

The queen, giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was, however, surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal.

From Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World by Balliet, Thomas M.

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

From Autobiographical Sketches by Besant, Annie Wood