defectiveness
131want — I. n. 1. Deficiency, absence, lack, dearth, default, defect. 2. Inadequacy, scarcity, scarceness, scantiness, meagreness, shortness, defectiveness, failure, insufficiency, deficiency, paucity, poverty. 3. Need, necessity, requirement, desideratum …
132defective — adjective 1 not made properly, or not working properly: defective components 2 technical defective verb a verb such as must or can that cannot be used in all the forms that a verb can usually be used in defectively adverb defectiveness noun (U) …
