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Inexactitude

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Lack of exactitude; inexactness.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A lack of exactness; something inexact or imprecise

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Inexactness; uncertainty.

n. Something inexact; an instance of an inexact statement, measurement, etc..

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or character of being inexact or inaccurate; inexactness.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of being inaccurate and having errors

Word Usage

"Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being."

Antonym

exactitude

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

inaccuracy

Hyponym

impreciseness imprecision

Form

terminological inexactitude

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

inexactness uncertainty

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

excessiveness snorter inadvertency gowk defectiveness