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inexactness
noun as in fallacy
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- faultiness
- flaw
- illogicality
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- mistake
- notion
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- speciousness
- subterfuge
Weak matches
noun as in inaccuracy
noun as in speciousness
Strong matches
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- spuriousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
Weak matches
noun as in spuriousness
Strong matches
- aberration
- ambiguity
- artifice
- bias
- casuistry
- cavil
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- deviation
- elusion
- equivocation
- erratum
- erroneousness
- error
- evasion
- falsehood
- faultiness
- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
- misconstrual
- misinterpretation
- mistake
- notion
- paradox
- perversion
- preconception
- prejudice
- quirk
- solecism
- sophism
- sophistry
- speciousness
- subterfuge
- untruth
Weak matches
Example Sentences
This inexactness opens the door for implicit biases, developed over hundreds of years of deterministic thinking, to influence conclusions about who is, and who is not, capable of adapting to climate change.
Aesthetically, it was pleasing in its inexactness, rambling and irregular lines, its woodiness.
The slippery inexactness of Trump’s language is often ascribed by his detractors to the deficiencies of his verbal skills and his lazy tendency to return again and again to the same stock words and phrases.
“I think it’s far too difficult to call and I think there’s a real inexactness to calling it and I think they need to get rid of it.”
“I think the targeting rule is nearly impossible to officiate. It’s far too difficult to call, and I think there’s a real inexactness to calling it. They need to get rid of it.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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