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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect;
- Example: "the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research"
- Example: "the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable"
[syn: incompleteness, rawness]


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]
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]
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