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
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 Peter Coffey
If McClellan ever moves this army, then the defectiveness of his staff may occasion losses and even disasters.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
Why? because it is simply a sign of defectiveness in the creature which the ages will rectify.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Annie Wood Besant
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