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

Cases of dental defectiveness are frequently greater in number than are all other sorts of physical defects combined.

From Health Work in the Public Schools by Ayres, Leonard Porter

Spinoza's aim in revealing the defectiveness of the Bible was not theological but philosophical.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph

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