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Unsoundness definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNSOUND'NESS, n.
1. Defectiveness; as the unsoundness of timber.
2. Defectiveness of faith; want of orthodoxy.
3. Corruptness; want of solidity; as the unsoundness of principles.
4. Defectiveness; as the unsoundness of fruit.
5. Infirmity; weakness; as of body; as the unsoundness of the body or constitution.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a condition of damage or decay [ant: soundness]
2: a misconception that is fallacious and not true or valid; "the unsoundness of his conclusion was obvious"
3: not mentally or physically healthy; "no one can be a poet without a certain unsoundness of mind" [ant: firmness, soundness, wisdom, wiseness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1586 1. the quality or state of being unsound 2. something (as a disease, injury, or defect) that causes one to be unsound

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unsound Un*sound", a. Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased. -- Un*sound"ly, adv. -- Un*sound"ness, n.