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Lossage

<jargon> /los'*j/ The result of a bug or malfunction.

This is a mass or collective noun.

"What a loss!" and "What lossage!"

are nearly synonymous.

The former is slightly more particular to the speaker's present circumstances; the latter implies a continuing lose of which the speaker is currently a victim.

Thus (for example) a temporary hardware failure is a loss, but bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage.

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