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

It could not indeed be otherwise; the defectiveness of the calendar must necessarily falsify all their records as to time.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

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.

Union supplements the defectiveness of each alone, and develops its full forcefulness.

From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Newton, R. Heber