unsoundness

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.