defectiveness adjective
de·fec·tive
The adjective form of defectiveness is defective
D dDefinitions
- adjective defectiveness having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine. 1
- adjective defectiveness Psychology. characterized by subnormal intelligence or behavior. 1
- adjective defectiveness Grammar. (of an inflected word or its inflection) lacking one or more of the inflected forms proper to most words of the same class in the language, as English must, which occurs only in the present tense. 1