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Definition of Imperfection
1. Noun. The state or an instance of being imperfect.
Generic synonyms: State
Specialized synonyms: Failing, Weakness, Flaw, Defect, Defect, Fault, Flaw, Wart, Defectiveness, Faultiness
Antonyms: Perfection
Derivative terms: Imperfect, Imperfect
Definition of Imperfection
1. n. The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.
Definition of Imperfection
1. Noun. Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect. ¹
2. Noun. Something that makes something else less than perfect; a blemish, impurity, error, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imperfection
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperfection
Literary usage of Imperfection
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"OF THE imperfection OF WORDS. BOOK 1n 1. FROM what has been said in the foregoing
chapters, ... To examine the perfection or imperfection and com- of words, ..."
2. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"imperfection, DEFECT, FAULT, VICE. These terms are applied either to persons or
to things. imperfection, denoting either the abstract quality of imperfect ..."
3. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order with Copious Illustrations by George Crabb (1904)
"imperfection, denoting either the abstract quality of imperfect, or the thing
which constitutes it imperfect, in a person arises from his want u! perfection ..."
4. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"imperfection of Con- , . , T ~ , .. , , IT is now necessary to notice an imperfection
to which concepts are peculiarly liable, and in the exposition of K ..."
5. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1893)
"The inferiority of chemistry to physics, in regard to method and Actual im-
doctrine, explains its relative imperfection with regard perfection. t0 actual ..."
6. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CHAPTER X ON THE imperfection OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD On the absence of intermediate
varieties at the present day—On the nature of extinct intermediate ..."
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