FAULTINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faultiness mean? 

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

1. the state of being defective

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAULTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being defective

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

defectiveness; faultiness

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

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

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

bugginess (the state of having bugs)

lameness (an imperfection or defectiveness)

sickness (defectiveness or unsoundness)

Derivation:

faulty (characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules)

faulty (having a defect)

 Context examples 

I then thought that my father would be unjust if he ascribed my neglect to vice or faultiness on my part, but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)