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]