incompletion
- noun
- /ˌɪnkəmˈpliːʃən/
- This means that with art you have fragmentariness and incompletion.
Examples
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EBD students were described as students who have chronic task incompletion problems, acting out, behavior difficulties, or social interaction difficulties severe enough to impede academic performance.
Academic text (1990) -
As noted in the public library-focused article, incompletion of the program did not mean staff did not learn or take things away.
Academic text (2012) -
He felt a certain incompletion because that brother had not survived.
Blog text (24) -
We could say then that the circle is not simply unfinished or in a state of incompletion but appears to be in the process of tracing itself.
Academic text (2000) -
While the Canadian state participates in global imperialism, the state is limited by the incompletion of its own internal colonial projects; the resistance of Indigenous peoples and nations has prevented Canada from breaking free of contests for territory and social construction.
Academic text (2009) -
With all due awareness of the breadth, variety, and incompletion of that work, I think its core can be succinctly expressed: the adult personality emerges only after its possessor has run the gauntlet of infantile dependency.
Academic text (1992) -
The incompletion of the project is causing frustrations among team members.
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Her sense of incompletion drove her to constantly seek new challenges.
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Despite its incompletion, the building still stood out as a remarkable design.
Synonyms
Not finishing a required course or task
Antonyms
How Complete
Surface Forms
Morphology
incompletion = completion (transparent) = in + complete + ion
Adding negative 'in-' to 'completion' straightforwardly gives the meaning 'lack of completion' or 'state of not being complete'.
Etymology
Incompletion comes from the prefix in- meaning 'not' and complete, which comes from a root meaning 'fill up' or 'make whole'. So incompletion is simply the state of something 'not finished' or 'not whole'.