Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being erroneous, wrong, or false; deviation from truth or right: as, the erroneousness of a judgment or proposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun inadvertent incorrectness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being in
error ; the quality of beingerroneous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun inadvertent incorrectness
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Examples
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I've questioned its fundamentality and erroneousness...
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I've questioned its fundamentality and erroneousness before.
The Not-So Fundamental Attribution Error, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I was immediately struck by the chutzpah of Sullivan's statement -- both because of its erroneousness and because he had the audacity to make it.
David Kaufman: Co-Opted: Marriage Equality's Civil Rights Rip-Off 2009
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I've questioned its fundamentality and erroneousness...
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Even if this land was acquired according to all the relevant laws of the time, the Jews were wrong – just like the British aristocrats in happy Valley during the British rule there, despite the erroneousness of the analogy.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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There being nothing that teachers at a yeshiva love more than to argue a Jewish boy out of his erroneousness, he found himself the center of attention.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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Despite the obvious erroneousness of the sceptics, they still keep the science in strangulation, if only because they take a lot of time.
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It is true that the erroneousness and shallowness of this conception of his faith was dimly perceptible to Alexey
Anna Karenina 2003
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Lieutenant Cook hath fully ascertained the erroneousness of this opinion.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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Lieutenant Cook hath fully ascertained the erroneousness of this opinion.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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