Meaning of IMPERFECTION
| Pronunciation: | | `impur'fekshun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the state or an instance of being imperfect |
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| | Synonyms: | | imperfectness |
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| | Antonyms: | | flawlessness, ne plus ultra, perfection | | |
| | See Also: | | defect, defectiveness, failing, fault, faultiness, flaw, state, weakness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im`per*fec"tion\, n. [L. imperfectio: cf. F.
imperfection. See {Imperfect}, a.]
The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of
perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.
Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my
head. --Shak.
Syn: Defect; deficiency; incompleteness; fault; failing;
weakness; frailty; foible; blemish; vice.
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| | Related Terms: | | absence, arrear, arrearage, arrears, bad habit, baseness, beggary, besetting sin, blemish, bug, catch, crack, damage, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defection, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, demerit, deprivation, destitution, drawback, drought, error, failing, failure, fallibility, falling short, famine, fault, faute, fewness, flaw, foible, frailty, hole, impoverishment, inadequacy, incompetence, incompleteness, inferiority, infirmity, insufficiency, kink, lack, little problem, littleness, maladroitness, meanness, mediocrity, moral flaw, need, omission, peccadillo, pettiness, problem, rift, shabbiness, short measure, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sin, slump, smallness, snag, something missing, starvation, subnormality, taint, triviality, underage, unskillfulness, vice, vulgarity, vulnerable place, want, wantage, weak link, weak point, weak side, weakness |
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