incompleteness
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5.9
- noun
- /ˌɪn.kəmˈpliːt.nəs/
:
incompletitud
- The project's incompleteness was evident as several sections were missing crucial information.
- sense of incompleteness
- degree of incompleteness
- incompleteness of fictional worlds
I like this sense of incompleteness and restless, irritable discontent.
- I like this sense of incompleteness and restless, irritable discontent.
- I think it represents the completeness and the incompleteness of life.
- I feel incomplete, and this incomplete home is merely an extension of my own incompleteness.
- So your mathematical system is incomplete, and that is Goodall's incompleteness theorem.
- The Girdle's incompleteness theorem is definitive.
Examples
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She felt a sense of incompleteness after realizing she had forgotten an important chapter in her report.
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Our schools and universities need teachers and researchers who are comfortable with incompleteness, artists who possess the courage to work.
Academic text (2014) -
Without a call of this sort, a call for justified faith, the situation of incompleteness might never be overcome.
Academic text (2017) -
Others may object to the incompleteness of the sampling procedure, depending upon the particular places and times studied.
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I will explain the concept once more and relate it to the problem of fictional world incompleteness.
Academic text (1995) -
One function of informal status rewards among academics is to make up for the incompleteness of formal intellectual property rights.
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Ordinarily, we don't notice this activity, so we project onto reality the incompleteness that our own organization has put there.
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Since then, others have blamed this incompleteness on Wilson's incoherent policies.
Academic text (2013) -
Driven by a sense of incompleteness, this almost-circle rolls bumpily through life looking for its missing piece.
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An alarming percentage of America's children are limping through life with a similar sense of incompleteness.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
51
3.7
A small fault that makes someone or something less good
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5.5
An unfinished, rough quality that feels unpolished
A state of being incomplete or not whole
A state of having faults or problems
Not finishing a required course or task
Antonyms
How Complete
Surface Forms
Morphology
incompleteness = incomplete (transparent) = in + complete + ness
Standard noun formation from the adjective 'incomplete' expressing the state or quality of being incomplete.
Etymology
Incompleteness comes from the parts in- meaning 'not', complete meaning 'finished', and the ending -ness which makes a noun. So incompleteness is the 'not finished' condition — like a puzzle with missing pieces, meaning something lacks parts or is imperfect.