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incompletion

incompletion

5.6
A state when something is not finished or has missing parts
  • noun
  • /ˌɪnkəmˈpliːʃən/
translation icon : incompletud
  • This means that with art you have fragmentariness and incompletion.

Examples

  • 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.

  • Her sense of incompletion drove her to constantly seek new challenges.

  • Despite its incompletion, the building still stood out as a remarkable design.

Synonyms

noncompletion
vsincompletion
6.3

Not finishing a required course or task

describes the general state of not finishing things across situations

Antonyms

108 2.4

The act of finishing a task or project

How Complete

completion
108 2.4
incompletion
5.6
beginning
1.0

Surface Forms

incompletion singular
incompletions plural

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'.