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What is the noun for defectiveness?

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defect
  1. A fault or malfunction.
  2. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
  3. (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “His main defect is that he closes himself off, in self-protective loneliness.”
      “The computer calculates features from the picture and decides if there is any defect on the surface of the cast metal.”
      “Testing of the software has exposed a critical defect that needs to be fixed urgently.”
defectionist
  1. One who advocates or encourages defection.
defectiveness
  1. The state or quality of being defective.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There now exists a vast repository of images that make it harder to maintain this kind of moral defectiveness.”
      “Admittedly a number of factors will contribute to the moral defectiveness and the aesthetic defectiveness of the work in question.”
      “The Act does not mention the cost of the product as a factor in determining defectiveness.”
defectivity
  1. State or quality of being defective.
defection
  1. an act or incidence of defecting
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The company is expected to announce an alliance with that company in an attempt to stem the defection of customers to the cable companies.”
      “The costs of defection, for its weaker participants, would assuredly be higher than are the costs of continued compliance.”
      “The amnesty was offered after Ieng Sary led a mass defection of thousands of Khmer Rouge forces to the government.”
defective
  1. A person or thing considered to be defective.
defector
  1. one who defects.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon A North Korean defector tries to capture peace in Brazil after the Korean War.”
      “At the time, Elisse Hategan, a prominent defector from the Heritage Front, slammed the report as a whitewash.”
      “In 1978, Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov was killed in London, stabbed by a poisoned umbrella point wielded by an unknown secret agent.”
defectivenesses
defectionists
  1. plural of defectionist
defectives
  1. plural of defective
defections
  1. plural of defection
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Most political defections have a story behind them, one of disappointed hopes or betrayal.”
      “Following a number of defections from other parties, Thai Rak Thai commanded an absolute majority in parliament.”
      “New defections, followed by bibulous celebrations in the Palais Royal, were reported daily.”
defectors
  1. plural of defector
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The most senior of all the Soviet defectors to the west, Orlov survived into his old age.”
      “Successful collusion often takes a third party to regulate the agreement and punish defectors.”
      “They told bald-faced lies or provided to Western intelligence defectors who told bald-faced lies.”
defects
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