unsoundness


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un·sound

 (ŭn-sound′)
adj. un·sound·er, un·sound·est
1. Not dependably strong or solid.
2. Not physically or mentally healthy.
3. Not true or logically valid; fallacious: an unsound conclusion.

un·sound′ly adv.
un·sound′ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.unsoundness - a condition of damage or decayunsoundness - a condition of damage or decay  
condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
disrepair - in need of repairs
decay - an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; "the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair"
soundness - a state or condition free from damage or decay
2.unsoundness - a misconception that is fallacious and not true or valid; "the unsoundness of his conclusion was obvious"
misconception - an incorrect conception
3.unsoundness - not mentally or physically healthy; "no one can be a poet without a certain unsoundness of mind"
bad, badness - that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"
firmness, soundness - the muscle tone of healthy tissue; "his muscular firmness"
wiseness, soundness, wisdom - the quality of being prudent and sensible
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unsoundness

noun
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Translations

unsoundness

[ˈʌnˈsaʊndnɪs] Nlo defectuoso; [of argument] → falta f de solidez
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unsoundness

n
(of heart etc)Krankheit f; (of health)Angegriffenheit f; (of timber)Morschheit f; (of construction, design)unsolide Bauweise; (of foundations, finances)Unsicherheit f, → Schwäche f
(of argument)geringe Stichhaltigkeit, Anfechtbarkeit f; (of advice)Unvernünftigkeit f; (of judgement)Unzuverlässigkeit f; (of doctrine)Unvertretbarkeit f; (of policy, move)mangelnde Klugheit; (Jur: of conviction) → Ungesichertheit f; unsoundness of mind (Jur) → Unzurechnungsfähigkeit f; political unsoundness (of person)politische Unzuverlässigkeit; (of policy)politische Unklugheit
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Long strings of young horses out of the country, fresh from the marshes; and droves of shaggy little Welsh ponies, no higher than Merrylegs; and hundreds of cart horses of all sorts, some of them with their long tails braided up and tied with scarlet cord; and a good many like myself, handsome and high-bred, but fallen into the middle class, through some accident or blemish, unsoundness of wind, or some other complaint.
Luke Britton could not make a remark, even on the weather, but Martin Poyser detected in it a taint of that unsoundness and general ignorance which was palpable in all his farming operations.
Bulstrode felt that his mode of talking about Catholic countries, as if there were any truce with Antichrist, illustrated the usual tendency to unsoundness in intellectual men.
But the rage of travelling is a symptom of a deeper unsoundness affecting the whole intellectual action.
We should try to understand this perfectly before proceeding; for it is precisely views of this sort which, after having been cut out of the original context, are repeated far and wide as internal evidence proving the general unsoundness of Nietzsche's philosophy.
By eliminating human beings from assessments, algorithmic decisions are designed as less discriminatory without the perceived unsoundness, partisanship, or shortcomings of individuals in the decision.
"As such inadvertently you breached BCCI Constitution rule number -- 14(9) page number -- 43, without relinquishing your post as BCCI Councillor and as such it is vacated by default, as under -- Any Vacancy in the Apex Council due to death, resignation, insolvency, unsoundness of mind, resignation, nomination to ICC or other disqualification shall be filled up for the remaining period."
(82) This last kind of unsoundness might be due to our excessive association with antilogikoi logoi, that is, contrary or contradictory arguments designed to make the same thing appear in contrary or contradictory ways.
That complaint accused the trainer of trying to mask the horse's unsoundness but made no such accusation as to the veterinarian.
In particular, this is so in English: mental affection, disease, illness, disorder, alienation, handicap, disability, deficiency; unsoundness of mind, illness of mind, feeble-mindedness < feeble-minded, weakness of mind, intellectual impairment, etc.
In USA, the board is investigating whether the president is mentally sound or not, as his old age frequently makes signs of unsoundness. India is declining under the command of old saga and Pakistan is trying to get rid of the same but the clutches of the statuesque still look 'iron grams' to chew, as the great defenders of it jubilantly claim.
'The reputation and esteem of this present Supreme Court will now rise or fall on the basis of the soundness or unsoundness of this controversial decision upholding a very unusual remedy to oust a sitting Chief Justice,' he continued.