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 is highly important in the diagnosis of the upper range of mental defectiveness.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

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 De Gurowski, Adam G., count

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