imperfectness

noun

as in imperfection

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Recent Examples of imperfectness American Girl emphasized the imperfectness of history and invited girls to make the nation better. — Tara Strauch, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imperfectness
  1. imperfection
  2. incompleteness
  3. unsoundness
Noun
  • Waymo’s sales pitch is that its technology will remove all that mortal imperfection from our streets.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • However, these fragile states can deteriorate through interactions with the environment and imperfections in hardware.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of imperfection
Noun
  • Visitors enter through an enormous convex iron door and find themselves in a space that seems to revel in its incompleteness.
    — Tim Hornyak, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • His first incompleteness theorem states that there are necessarily unprovable statements in all sufficiently strong, contradiction-free systems.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 26 May 2026
Definition of incompleteness
Noun
  • Based on Alaïa Jade’s public reputation and the structural unsoundness of the bell tower, Smullen thinks an accidental death is likely.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In looking back at the history of Emtech, the colt who suffered a catastrophic breakdown in Saturday’s eighth race, it was discovered that he was once placed on the Veterinarian’s List because of unsoundness.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
Definition of unsoundness

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“Imperfectness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imperfectness. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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