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Showing words for DEFECTIVENESS using the English dictionary

13 Letter Words for Defectiveness

defectiveness

10 Letter Words for Defectiveness

defectives, defensives, descensive, desistence

9 Letter Words for Defectiveness

defective, defencive, defensive, eventides, evidences, fetidness, seventies

8 Letter Words for Defectiveness

centeses, centesis, deceives, decessit, defenses, deftness, descents, destines, devisees, enfested, esnecies, essenced, eventide, evictees, evidence, evidents, fendiest, finessed, infected, infested, insected, invected, invested, neediest, seediest, senesced, sistence, steedies, vendises, venefice, venesect

7 Letter Words for Defectiveness

censive, deceits, deceive, defects, defeise, defense, defines, densest, descent, desines, destine, deveins, devests, devices, devinct, devisee, devises, disnest, dissect, dissent, divests, edenite, edestin, endites, endives, enticed, entices, essence, estevin, evected, evenest, evented, evetide, evicted, evictee, evident, evinced, evinces, feinted, fensive, festine, festive, finesse, fitness, incedes, incests, infects, infests, insects, invests, necesse, scenist, scenite, scented, secedes, sective, seitens, senesce, sensive, senvies, sestine, sienese, snidest, snifted, steened, steeved, steeves, steined, stevens, tensive, vendees, vendiss, venefic, venetic, venites, vestees, vitesse

6 Letter Words for Defectiveness

cedens, cedent, ceftin, ceinte, censed, censes, cessed, cetene, cevine, cisted, citess, civets, ctenes, deceit, decene, decent, decess, decine, decise, decnet, deeses, deesis, deeves, defect, defeit, defies, define, deices, deists, denets, denies, dentes, desine, desist, destin, devein, devest, device, devise, dienes, dieses, disfen, divest, dsects, eceses, ecesis, ectene, edenic, edicts, eevens, eident, encist, endict, endite, endive, enfect, ensete, entice, enties, envied, envies, essede, essene, essive, estive, evened, events, evicts, evince, evited, evites, feesed, feeses, feints, feists, fenced, fences, fenite, fessed, festin, fetise, fiends, fients, finest, fisted, fsiest, idence, incede, incest, infect, infeed, infest, insect, insets, invect, invest, neesed, neeses, neives, nessie, nested, nicest, nieces, nieves, scends, scened, scenes, scents, scient, sdeins, secede, sedent, seenie, seesee, seined, seines, seised, seiten, sendee, sensed, sensei, sented, sevens, sidest, sients, sieved, sieves, sifted, sisted, sisten, sneest, snides, snifts, stedes, steeds, steens, steeve, steins, stends, steven, stieve, stived, stives, teends, teened, teenes, teenie, teevee, teinds, tensed, tenses, tessin, teviss, vectis, veined, vendee, vendis, veneti, venice, venise, venite, vented, vested, vestee, vinted, viseed, visnes

5 Letter Words for Defectiveness

cedes, cedis, ceint, cense, centi, cents, cesse, ceste, cesti, cetes, cetin, cides, cines, cists, cited, citee, cites, cives, civet, csnet, ctene, deens, deess, deets, deeve, deevs, defet, defis, deice, deist, denes, denet, dense, dents, desse, detin, dices, dicts, diene, diets, dines, dints, discs, distn, dites, dives, divet, dsect, edict, edite, edits, eeten, eeven, eevns, eneid, enets, ensis, entsi, esnes, essed, essee, essen, etens, evene, evens, event, evese, evets, evict, evite, feces, fecit, feeds, feese, feest, feint, feist, fence, fends, fenis, fents, fesse, fests, feted, fetes, fetid, fetis, fices, fides, fiend, fient, fiest, finds, fined, fines, fiscs, fists, fives, fnese, ident, idest, indef, insee, inset, intsv, needs, neese, neifs, neist, neive, nests, netes, neves, nevis, nides, niece, niefs, nieve, nifes, nisse, scend, scene, scent, scind, sdein, sects, sedes, seeds, seifs, seine, seise, sence, sends, senit, sense, sente, senti, sents, sesti, seven, sices, sides, siens, sient, siest, sieve, sifts, since, sinds, sined, sines, sited, sites, sneds, sneed, snees, snide, snies, snift, snite, snits, stede, steds, steed, steen, steid, stein, stend, stens, steve, stied, sties, stife, stine, stive, teend, teene, teens, teind, teise, tends, tenes, tense, ticed, tices, tides, tiens, tinds, tined, tines, tsine, vedet, vedic, veins, vends, venie, vents, vests, viced, vices, vined, vines, vinet, vints, vised, vises, visne

4 Letter Words for Defectiveness

cede, cedi, cees, cene, cens, cent, cess, cest, cete, ceti, cide, cids, cine, cist, cite, cits, cive, civs, deen, dees, deet, deev, defi, defs, deft, deis, dene, deni, dens, dent, desc, desi, dess, deti, detn, deve, devi, devs, dice, dict, dies, diet, difs, dine, dins, dint, disc, dist, dite, dits, dive, divs, eden, edit, eevn, efts, eide, eine, ende, ends, ened, enes, ense, eses, esne, esse, ests, eten, etic, even, eves, evet, fdic, fedn, feds, feed, fees, feet, feis, fend, feni, fens, fent, fess, fest, fete, fets, fice, fict, fide, fids, fied, fies, find, fine, fins, fisc, fise, fist, fits, five, iced, ices, idee, ides, ieee, inde, inst, invt, isdn, ised, isnt, neds, need, neet, nefs, neif, nese, ness, nest, nete, neti, nets, neve, nevi, nice, nide, nids, nied, nief, nies, nife, nist, nits, nsec, scet, scsi, sctd, secs, sect, seed, seen, sees, seif, seis, seit, send, sene, sens, sent, sese, sets, seve, sice, sics, side, sids, sien, sife, sift, sind, sine, sins, sise, sist, site, sits, sned, snee, snit, ssed, sted, sten, stid, stie, svce, teds, teed, teen, tees, tefs, tend, tene, tens, tice, tics, tide, tids, tied, tien, ties, tinc, tind, tine, tins, veen, vees, vein, vend, vent, vese, vest, vets, vice, vide, vids, vied, vies, vine, vins, vint, vise, viss, vite

3 Letter Words for Defectiveness

cdf, cee, cen, cfd, cfi, cfs, cid, cie, cif, cis, cit, civ, cns, csi, cst, cte, ctf, ctn, cts, dec, dee, def, dei, den, des, det, dev, dft, die, dif, din, dis, dit, div, ect, eds, eec, een, efs, eft, enc, end, ene, ens, env, esc, esd, ese, ess, est, etc, eve, fcs, fec, fed, fee, fei, fen, fes, fet, fid, fie, fin, fit, ice, ide, ids, ifc, ife, ifs, inc, ind, inf, ins, int, inv, ise, isn, ist, itd, its, ive, ned, nee, nef, nei, net, nid, nie, nis, nit, scd, scf, sci, sct, sds, sec, sed, see, sei, sen, set, sic, sie, sif, sin, sis, sit, sse, std, svc, tec, ted, tee, tef, ten, tes, tic, tid, tie, tin, tis, tsi, tss, vee, vei, vet, vic, vid, vie, vin, vis, vss

Definitions for Defectiveness

[1] having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
[2] Psychology . characterized by subnormal intelligence or behavior.
[3] 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.
[4] a defective person or thing.
[5] having a defect or flaw; imperfect; faulty
[6] (of a person) below the usual standard or level, esp in intelligence
[7] grammar (of a word) lacking the full range of inflections characteristic of its form class, as for example must, which has no past tense

Words related to Defectiveness

defectiveflaw, weakness, failing, imperfection, dearth, paucity, deficiency, insufficiency, incapacity, shortcoming, ineffectiveness, ineptitude, inefficiency, loss, lack, shortage, blemish, scantiness, drawback, deficit

Words nearby Defectiveness

defectivedefeature, defecate, defect, defectible, defection, defective, defective bacteriophage, defective virus, defective year, defector, defederalize

Origin of Defectiveness

1375–1425; < Late Latin dēfectīvus, equivalent to dēfectus (see defect) + -īvus -ive; replacing Middle English defectif < Middle French < Late Latin, as above

Other words from Defectiveness

de·fec·tive·ly , adverb
de·fec·tive·ness , noun
non·de·fec·tive , adjective
non·de·fec·tive·ly , adverb
non·de·fec·tive·ness , noun
pre·de·fec·tive , adjective
un·de·fec·tive , adjective
un·de·fec·tive·ly , adverb
un·de·fec·tive·ness , noun

Synonyms for Defectiveness

dearth, deficiency, failing, flaw, imperfection, incapacity, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, ineptitude, insufficiency, paucity, shortcoming, weakness, blemish, defalcation, deficit, drawback, faultiness, inadequateness, inaptness, incompetence, incompetency, incompleteness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, lack, meagerness, poverty, scantiness, unfitness, unsuitableness, skimpiness, underage