FromOld Frenchimperfeccion, seeim- +perfection.
imperfection (countable anduncountable,pluralimperfections)
- (uncountable) Thosequalities orfeatures that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of beingimperfect.
You can accept yourimperfection or try to improve.
- (countable) Something that makes something else less than perfect; ablemish,impurity,error, etc.
He loves me despite myimperfections.
1712 January 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “MONDAY, December 31, 1711”, inThe Spectator, number262; republished inAlexander Chalmers, editor,The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton & Company,1853,→OCLC,page308:It will be sufficient for me if I discover many beauties orimperfections which others have not attended to; and I should be very glad to see one of our eminent writers publish their discoveries on the same subject.- The spelling has been modernized.
1982, Alan Holden, Phylis Morrison, “Cleaving and Gliding Crystals”, inCrystals and Crystal Growing, Cambridge, Mass., London:MIT Press,→ISBN, page202:Notice that cleavage has nothing to do withimperfections in the crystal. Indeed, if you try cleaving an imperfect crystal, you may find that it cannot be cleaved as well as a perfect one. The cleavage is the result of the orderliness of the atomic arrangement. No wonderimperfections, which disturb the orderliness, disturb the cleavage as well. You will also note that the cleavage directions are obedient to the symmetry of the crystal.
something that makes something else less than perfect
FromLatinimperfectiōnem.
imperfection f (pluralimperfections)
- (uncountable)imperfection
- (countable)imperfection
imperfection f (pluralimperfections)
- (uncountable)imperfection
- (countable)imperfection
