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LAMENESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does lameness mean?

• LAMENESS (noun)
The noun LAMENESS has 2 senses:

1. disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
2. an imperfection or defectiveness

Familiarity information: LAMENESS used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LAMENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

claudication; gameness; gimp; gimpiness; lameness; limping

Hypernyms ("lameness" is a kind of...):

disability of walking (a disability that interferes with or prevents walking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lameness"):

intermittent claudication (lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

An imperfection or defectiveness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

a stylist noted for the lameness of his plots

Hypernyms ("lameness" is a kind of...):

defectiveness; faultiness (the state of being defective)

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