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 ā 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 ā Jan. 23, 2013
Union supplements the defectiveness of each alone, and develops its full forcefulness.
From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by R. Heber Newton
The whole world knows the excellent working of the Japanese Red Cross Society, and, I may add, the defectiveness of Russia in similar respects.
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu
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 Richard Falckenberg
