INCOMPLETENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incompleteness mean? 

• INCOMPLETENESS (noun)
  The noun INCOMPLETENESS has 1 sense:

1. the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect

  Familiarity information: INCOMPLETENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCOMPLETENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

incompleteness; rawness

Context example:

the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable

Hypernyms ("incompleteness" is a kind of...):

integrity; unity; wholeness (an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incompleteness"):

partialness (the state of being only a part; not total; incomplete)

sketchiness (incompleteness of details)

Antonym:

completeness (the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed)

Derivation:

incomplete (not complete or total; not completed)

incomplete (not yet finished)