Unsoundness

noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being unsound. countable, uncountable

    "Most likely he was accounting for that by the bias my job might be expected to give – aggravated by a phobia resulting from my recent sting – and he was wondering whether it might connote other, perhaps less harmless, unsoundnesses."

  2. 2
    not mentally or physically healthy wordnet
  3. 3
    a misconception that is fallacious and not true or valid wordnet
  4. 4
    a condition of damage or decay wordnet

Synonyms

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aberrationabnormalityalienationbrain damagecaducitychildishness

Example

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"Most likely he was accounting for that by the bias my job might be expected to give – aggravated by a phobia resulting from my recent sting – and he was wondering whether it might connote other, perhaps less harmless, unsoundnesses."

Etymology

From unsound + -ness.

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