DEFECTIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does defectiveness mean? 

• DEFECTIVENESS (noun)
  The noun DEFECTIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the state of being defective

  Familiarity information: DEFECTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFECTIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being defective

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

defectiveness; faultiness

Hypernyms ("defectiveness" is a kind of...):

imperfection; imperfectness (the state or an instance of being imperfect)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "defectiveness"):

bugginess (the state of having bugs)

lameness (an imperfection or defectiveness)

sickness (defectiveness or unsoundness)

Derivation:

defective (not working properly)

defective (having a defect)

 Context examples 

The queen, giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was, however, surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)