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3 definitions found
for incompleteness
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Incompleteness \In`com*plete"ness\, n.
The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness.
--Boyle.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
incompleteness
n 1: the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect; "the
study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it
stimulated further research"; "the rawness of his diary
made it unpublishable" [syn: incompleteness, rawness]
[ant: completeness]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "incompleteness":
absence, adulteration, beggary, broken thread, brokenness,
defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation,
destitution, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance,
discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness,
disjunction, drought, episode, erroneousness, fallibility, famine,
faultiness, fitfulness, immaturity, impairment, imperfection,
impoverishment, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness,
incoherence, inexactitude, inexactness, intermittence,
irregularity, need, non sequitur, noncontinuance, nonlinearity,
nonseriality, nonuniformity, omission, parenthesis, patchiness,
shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sketchiness, starvation,
undevelopment, unevenness, unperfectedness, unsoundness, want,
wantage
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