The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imperfection \Im`per*fec"tion\, n. [L. imperfectio: cf. F. imperfection. See Imperfect, a.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French imperfeccion (12c.) and directly from Late Latin imperfectionem (nominative imperfectio), from imperfectus (see imperfect).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect. 2 (context countable English) Something that makes something else less than perfect; a blemish, impurity, error, etc.
WordNet
n. the state or an instance of being imperfect [syn: imperfectness] [ant: perfection]
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ "Imperfection" is the 148th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the second episode of the seventh season.
Usage examples of "imperfection".
As pleased as she was, overall, with her settlement of the Axumite succession problem, it was not a perfect world and her solution had shared in that imperfection.
These imperfections, however, are compensated in some degree by the poetical virtues of Claudian.
The capital of the Zeirides was named Africa from the country, and Mahadia from the Arabian founder: it is strongly built on a neck of land, but the imperfection of the harbor is not compensated by the fertility of the adjacent plain.
I venture to hope that, with all its imperfections, it may be of some use to the more serious student, as a rough outline map of the field of Christmas customs, and as bringing together materials hitherto scattered through a multitude of volumes in various languages.
Divine or human, inspired or only a reforming Essene, it must be agreed that His teachings are far nobler, far purer, far less alloyed with error and imperfection, far less of the earth earthly, than those of Socrates, Plato, Seneca, or Mahomet, or any other of the great moralists and Reformers of the world.
The imperfections reassured rather than distressed Lindsay, for she had a well-developed suspicion of artifacts in flawless condition.
The breaking of the consecrated host, and the putting of only one part into the chalice, regards the mystical body, just as the mixing with water signifies the people, and therefore the omission of either of them causes no such imperfection in the sacrifice, as calls for repetition regarding the celebration of this sacrament.
Bright fell the moonlight on pillar and court and shattered wall, hiding all their rents and imperfections in its silver garment, and clothing their hoar majesty with the peculiar glory of the night.
Musical Museum of Johnson, a work which, amid many imperfections of taste and arrangement, contains more of the true old music and genuine old songs of Scotland, than any other collection with which I am acquainted.
For my part, Adela is more to me for the imperfection, infinitely more to me for the confession of it in her own mind.
The lively countenances of these people are wonderfully indicative of the emotions of the soul, and the imperfections of their oral language are more than compensated for by the nervous eloquence of their looks and gestures.
In all human governments there will be defects and abuses, and he is no wise man who expects perfection from imperfection.
Jim rarely thought ill of anyone, he was frequently startled when Paula came down hard on one of her aunts or uncles, and at times he even wondered if she exaggerated when she listed their imperfections, the terrible wrongs they had done her grandmother.
They were both at fault, and if he had a few imperfections, then most assuredly so did she.
Trenor will, for all his imperfections, take a jaundiced view toward your neglect of his nine reluctant patients.