incompleteness

English

Etymology

From incomplete +‎ -ness.

Noun

incompleteness (usually uncountable, plural incompletenesses)

1. The state or condition of being not complete.
   • 1962 July, “Talking of Trains: The new all-line timetable”, in Modern Railways, page 10:

     Its incompleteness in this respect makes the timetable of less value than some of its Continental counterparts, such as the French Horaires Mayeux; nevertheless, it is fair value at 5s.

   • 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 (de) f
• Indonesian: ketidaklengkapan
• Irish: neamhiomláine f, neamhfhoirfeacht f
• Italian: incompletezza f
• Japanese: 未完 (ja) (mikan)
• Malayalam: അപൂർണ്ണത (apūṟṇṇata)
• Manx: neuslanid m, neuchreaghnys m
• Portuguese: incompletude f
• Russian: незаконченность (ru) f (nezakončennostʹ), незавершённость (ru) f (nezaveršónnostʹ), неполнота (ru) f (nepolnota), несовершенность (ru) f (nesoveršennostʹ), недодел (ru) m (nedodel), недостроенность f (nedostrojennostʹ), недоделка (ru) f (nedodelka)
• Spanish: incompletitud, incompletud
• Swedish: ofullständighet (sv)