Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of exactitude; inexactness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being inexact or inaccurate; inexactness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Inexactness; uncertainty.
- noun Something inexact; an instance of an inexact statement, measurement, etc..
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A lack of
exactness ; somethinginexact orimprecise
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being inaccurate and having errors
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Examples
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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.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
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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.
A Modern Utopia 1906
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That would be, in my opinion, a kind of inexactitude worse than that to which we are exposed in admitting the details supplied by the texts.
The Life of Jesus Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1863
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That would be, in my opinion, a kind of inexactitude worse than that to which we are exposed in admitting the details supplied by the texts.
The Life of Jesus Ernest Renan 1857
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So, if you take a figure of approximately Rs 52,000 crore, one third of this would certainly be absorbed by the upstream companies, the government would certainly absorb 50% or more, the kind of inexactitude is really about the balance
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The White House now agrees, though it presumably would prefer “inexactitude” to “lie”.
Immigration 2010
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So Callahan wrote an AP wire story that included a choice little graf with both quotes, and the obvious, er, terminological inexactitude.
Matthew Yglesias » Strange Tales of Congressional Procedure 2010
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… It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.
Making Sense of Market Forecasts Jason Zweig 2011
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"Les mots du coeur trouvent leur marque en dépit de leur inexactitude" ... hum, would this be a correct translation?
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(Even Jerry Brown won't call a spade a spade, referring instead to Meg Whitman's "intentional, terminological inexactitude.")
Phil Trounstine: The Death of Truth: eMeg and the Politics of Lying 2010
kingrat47 commented on the word inexactitude
This, like sesquipedalian, is a word that describes itself, or so think I.
December 10, 2006