defectiveness

noun

Definition of defectivenessnext
as in impairment

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  1. impairment
  2. disability
  3. failing
  4. weakness
  5. detriment
  6. fault
Noun
  • In 2016, Maco was involved in a car crash that left him with multiple skull fractures, a broken eye socket, cracked vertebrae, and heart palpitations, as well as visual impairment that doctors were eventually able to treat.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Bower said there were no signs of impairment for any of the involved drivers.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of impairment
Noun
  • According to the bill, federal programs that help students with disabilities would move to the Department of Health and Human Services.
    Chris Papst, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024
  • An East Bay nonprofit organization that provides attendant care, free transportation to seniors and people with disabilities as well as wheelchair repairs will soon mark 30 years in Berkeley, the birthplace of the independent living movement.
    Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of disability
Noun
  • Often, these norms suppress dissent, discourage employees from reporting unethical behavior or foster complacency among those who witness leadership failings.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • That, in turn, led to a campaign focused on the failings of the 118th Congress, historically one of the least productive in history.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of failing
Noun
  • The biggest risks to the expansion are high inflation and global economic weakness, with a tie for third between the incoming administration’s fiscal policies and the size of the U.S. deficit.
    Steve Liesman, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Altman’s OpenAI has different strengths and weaknesses.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of weakness
Noun
  • For now, the view here is that absent the monumental theft that is devaluation there’s no market for someone as odious as Hitler, nor is there acceptance of the genocidal horrors that Hitler foisted on Germany to its everlasting detriment.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
  • There should be limits to profiting off the detriment of others.
    TJ Hutchinson, The Denver Post, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of detriment
Noun
  • So in addition to a random chance and bad infrastructure design causing this collision and human driver being at fault, in addition to all of that, the company then did not give all of the information to investigators after the crash.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
  • That includes being recast through no fault of your own.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of fault
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