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INEXACTNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inexactness mean?
• INEXACTNESS (noun)
The noun INEXACTNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being inexact
Familiarity information: INEXACTNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being inexact
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
inexactitude; inexactness
Hypernyms ("inexactness" is a kind of...):
inaccuracy (the quality of being inaccurate and having errors)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inexactness"):
impreciseness; imprecision (the quality of lacking precision)
Antonym:
exactness (the quality of being exact)
Derivation:
inexact (not exact)
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