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- noun The quality of being
underinclusive .
Etymologies
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underinclusive + -ness
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Examples
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Also, if we create rules, we must tolerate their over and underinclusiveness.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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I agree, but that still has implications for how we understand and interpret the exceptions – and also increases the underinclusiveness of prohibiting other kinds of commercial dilution, which has implications for the First Amendment analysis of dilution.
IP Scholars conference, first plenary session Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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Over and underinclusiveness are, however, not pathological features of rules, but they are the inevitable corollaries of rules-based decision-making.
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