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Inexactitude

Inexactitude \In`ex*act"i*tude\, n.

  1. Inexactness; uncertainty; as, geographical inexactitude.

  2. Something inexact; an instance of an inexact statement, measurement, etc.; as, in two minutes the senator has produced a dozen inexactitudes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inexactitude

1786, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + exactitude.

Wiktionary
inexactitude

n. A lack of exactness; something inexact or imprecise

WordNet
inexactitude

n. the quality of being inaccurate and having errors [syn: inexactness] [ant: exactness]

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Usage examples of "inexactitude".

Casanova's allusions to well known people, showing the perfect exactitude of all but six or seven, and out of these six or seven inexactitudes ascribing only a single one to the author's intention.

Robots, she believed, should be slaves, ideal servants, with only enough self-direction to interpret the inexactitudes of human commands and possibly anticipate human desires.

There are so many inexactitudes that one'll probably cancel out another.