incompleteness

English

Etymology

incomplete +‎ -ness.

Noun

incompleteness (usually uncountable, plural incompletenesses)

1. The state or condition of being not complete.
   • 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 117:

     This low number points to the incompleteness and, with respect, haphazardness of the two selections.

Synonyms

• incompletion
• unfinishedness

Antonyms

• completeness
• completion
• finishedness

Related terms

• Gödel's incompleteness theorem

Translations

incomplete state or condition

• Czech: neúplnost f
• Finnish: epätäydellisyys (fi)
• French: incomplétude (fr) f
• German: Unvollständigkeit f
• Indonesian: ketidaklengkapan
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• Japanese: 未完 (mikan)
• Portuguese: incompletude f
• Spanish: incompletitud, incompletud
• Swedish: ofullständighet (sv)