Imperfection meaning

ĭm'pər-fĕk'shən
Something imperfect; a defect or flaw.
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The definition of imperfection is a fault or blemish, or is the state of having a fault.

A tear in a painting or a stain on a sofa are examples of an imperfection.

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The quality or condition of being imperfect.
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The quality or condition of being imperfect.
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A shortcoming; defect; fault; blemish.
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(uncountable) Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect.

You can accept your imperfection or try to improve.

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(countable) Something that makes something else less than perfect; a blemish, impurity, error, etc.

He loves me despite my imperfections.

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Origin of imperfection

From Old French imperfeccion. See im- +‎ perfection.

Sentence Examples

  • Coleridge, praising the genius in the book, blamed the metrical imperfection of it.

  • The more remote from God, the greater the degree of imperfection (i.e.

  • Here he analyses " abstract ideas," and instructively illustrates the confusion apt to be produced in them by the inevitable imperfection of words.

  • He had mastered his manner and, as one may say, learned his trade, in the exercise of criticism and the reflective parts of literature, before he surrendered himself to that powerful creative impulse which had long been tempting him, so that when, in mature life, he essayed the portraiture of invented character he came to it unhampered by any imperfection of language.

  • What requires explanation is not the imperfection of actual images so much as the possibility of their being as good as we find them.

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