Usually means: Flaw or deviation from perfection.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word imperfection:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperfection: Merriam-Webster
  2. imperfection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imperfection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imperfection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imperfection: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imperfection, imperfection: Wordnik
  7. imperfection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imperfection: Wiktionary
  9. imperfection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imperfection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imperfection: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Imperfection, imperfection: Dictionary.com
  13. imperfection: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Imperfection (Evanescence song), Imperfection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Imperfection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. imperfection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. imperfection: Rhymezone
  18. Imperfection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. imperfection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. imperfection: FreeDictionary.org
  21. imperfection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. imperfection: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. imperfection: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Imperfection (Voyager episode), imperfection: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imperfection: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect.
▸ noun:  (countable) Something that makes something else less than perfect; a blemish, impurity, error, etc.

Similar:
imperfectness, unperfectness, unperfection, nonperfection, unperfectedness, imperfectability, imperfectibility, flawedness, imperfectiveness, semiperfection, more...

Opposite:
perfection, flawlessness, purity

Types:
mole, freckle, pimple, blackhead, whitehead, scar, wrinkle, more...

Phrases:
market imperfection, Flaunt the Imperfection, ugly imperfection, nutrition imperfection, an imperfection, more...

Adjectives:
human, own, moral, great, initial, very, physical, slight, much, extreme, only

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive,     mustard,     rust, more...



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Similar:
imperfectness, unperfectness, unperfection, nonperfection, unperfectedness, imperfectability, imperfectibility, flawedness, imperfectiveness, semiperfection, more...

Opposite:
perfection, flawlessness, purity

Types:
mole, freckle, pimple, blackhead, whitehead, scar, wrinkle, more...

Phrases:
market imperfection, Flaunt the Imperfection, ugly imperfection, nutrition imperfection, an imperfection, fear of imperfection, lacking imperfection, without imperfection, more...

Adjectives:
human, own, moral, great, initial, very, physical, slight, much, extreme, only

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive,     mustard,     rust, more...



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