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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imperfection \Im'per*fec"tion\, noun [L. imperfectio: cf. F. imperfection. See {Imperfect}, adjective] The quality or condition of being imperfect; lack of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.
Sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. --Shak.
Syn: Defect; deficiency; incompleteness; fault; failing; weakness; frailty; foible; blemish; vice.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
imperfection
noun: the state or an instance of being imperfect [syn: {imperfectness}] [ant: {perfection}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "imperfection": absence, arrear, arrearage, arrears, bad habit, baseness, beggary, besetting sin, blemish, bug, catch, crack, damage, decline, defalcation, default, defect, defection, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, demerit, deprivation, destitution, drawback, drought, error, failing, failure, fallibility, falling short, famine, fault, faute, fewness, flaw, foible, frailty, hole, impoverishment, inadequacy, incompetence, incompleteness, inferiority, infirmity, insufficiency, kink, lack, little problem, littleness, maladroitness, meanness, mediocrity, moral flaw, need, omission, peccadillo, pettiness, problem, rift, shabbiness, short measure, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sin, slump, smallness, snag, something missing, starvation, subnormality, taint, triviality, underage, unskillfulness, vice, vulgarity, vulnerable place, want, wantage, weak link, weak point, weak side, weakness
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