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COMPLETENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does completeness mean?
• COMPLETENESS (noun)
The noun COMPLETENESS has 2 senses:
1. the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed
2. (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system
Familiarity information: COMPLETENESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("completeness" is a kind of...):
integrity; unity; wholeness (an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting)
Attribute:
complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)
incomplete; uncomplete (not complete or total; not completed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "completeness"):
entireness; entirety; integrality; totality (the state of being total and complete)
comprehensiveness; fullness (completeness over a broad scope)
Antonym:
incompleteness (the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect)
Derivation:
complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)
complete (perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("completeness" is a kind of...):
logicality; logicalness (correct and valid reasoning)
Domain category:
logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)
Context examples
A term used to describe the state or condition of the completeness of the laboratory data.
(Laboratory Data Completion Status, NCI Thesaurus)
A term used to describe the state or condition of the completeness of the findings about events or interventions data.
(Findings About Events or Interventions Completion Status, NCI Thesaurus)
A term used to describe the state or condition of the completeness of the microbiology data.
(Microbiology Completion Status, NCI Thesaurus)
A term used to describe the state or condition of the completeness of the microbiology susceptibility data.
(Microbiology Susceptibility Completion Status, NCI Thesaurus)
A term used to describe the state or condition of the completeness of the pharmacokinetic parameters data.
(Pharmacokinetic Parameters Completion Status, NCI Thesaurus)
A term used to describe the state or condition of the completeness of the pharmacokinetic concentration data.
(Pharmacokinetic Concentration Completion Status, NCI Thesaurus)
A term used to describe the state or condition of the completeness of the drug accountability data.
(Drug Accountability Completion Status, NCI Thesaurus)
A term used to describe the state or condition of the completeness of the clinical events data.
(Clinical Events Completion Status, NCI Thesaurus)
And that he should be stirred by it marked the completeness with which he harked back through the ages of fire and roof to the raw beginnings of life in the howling ages.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The completeness of the fossil allowed the team to reconstruct a face.
(3.8-million-year-old fossil cranium unveils more about human ancestry, National Science Foundation)
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