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
The distinction between irregularity and defectiveness has been foreshadowed.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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 Leonard Porter Ayres
With the problems of the child's normality and defectiveness, discipline and delinquency, work and play, and its assimilation into the body politic, our towns and cities, states and nation have been forced to deal.
From Library Work with Children by Alice Isabel Hazeltine
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