defectiveness

Example Sentences

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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

Yet there is a defectiveness in all the rules that natural reason can reach unto.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

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.

This defectiveness, which is properly physical or moral evil, is sometimes described as falsity, lying, vanity, etc., on account of the discrepancy between those things and the ideal of what they should be.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter