imperfectness

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Noun
  • The elder show’s rough-hewn edges and imperfections were central to its appeal.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • The resulting project embraces imperfection, an ethos Bingham claims to have grown more comfortable with over time.
    Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • However, they’re often left with a feeling of incompleteness at the end of one.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Your proof rests on two famous sets of premises—Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which found that every mathematical system will have statements that can never be proven, and Turing’s undecidability result for the halting problem, which found that some problems are inherently unsolvable.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2026
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
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“Imperfectness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imperfectness. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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