imprecisionn.
/ɪmprɪˈsɪʒən/ Want of precision; inexactness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > [noun]
wrongc1620
obliquity1646
untrueness1652
unaccurateness1659
inaccuracy1671
unexactness1677
unaccuracy1702
wrongness1726
looseness1769
inexactitude1786
imprecision1803
inexactness1828
impreciseness1907
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [noun] > vagueness or inexplicitness
ambage1520
vagueness1799
imprecision1803
inexplicitness1869
impreciseness1907
1803 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 14 487 The imprecision of this language arises from Berkeley's not having investigated what ideas are.
1815 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 38 502 The slightest imprecision of outline may annihilate beauty.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 871 Scorbutus..could not therefore, without imprecision be used in a generic signification.
1954 W. Stevens Coll. Poems 353 The romance of the precise is not the elision Of the tired romance of imprecision.
1971 Nature 4 June 274/1 For one thing, it pointed to strictly legal imprecisions in the legislation which at present regulates the use of transplants in Britain.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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