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Definition: Incompleteness |
IncompletenessNoun1. The state of being incomplete and imperfect. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incompleteness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonym: IncompletenessSynonym: imperfection. (additional references) |
| Antonym: completeness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Incompleteness | Noun: incompleteness; Adjective: deficiency, short measure; shortcoming; insufficiency; imperfection; immaturity; (nonpreparation); half measures. |
Insufficiency | Noun: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence; (impotence); deficiency; (incompleteness); imperfection; shortcoming; paucity; stint; scantiness; (smallness); none to spare, bare subsistence. |
Interval | Gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow; abra; barranca, barranco; clove, gulch, notch; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis; (interjacence); void c. (absence); incompleteness. |
Noncompletion | Noun: noncompletion, nonfulfillment; shortcoming; incompleteness; drawn battle, drawn game; work of Penelope. |
Shortcoming | Incompleteness; imperfection; insufficiency; noncompletion; failure. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Incompleteness |
| English words defined with "incompleteness": Fragmentariness ♦ Halfness ♦ Incompletion ♦ sketchiness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incompleteness": CASKET INSPECTOR, cause-effect graphing ♦ plausible reasoning. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "incompleteness": Halfness. (references) |
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| "Incompleteness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incompleteness" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 44 | 51,500 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
incompleteness | 8 |
incompleteness theorem | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "incompleteness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 残缺不全 (incomplete). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaillinaisuus (defectiveness, imperfection), epätäydellisyys (imperfection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | unvollständigkeit (being out of stock, fragmentariness, imperfection, inchoateness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ατέλεια (blemish, defect, deficiency, duty paid, exemption, fault, flaw, free of customs, imperfection, imperfectness, shortcoming, sketchiness, threshold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פ'ימות (defectiveness), אי שלמות (imperfection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hiányosság (blemish, defect, deficiency, fault, flaw, incompletion, insufficiency, scantiness), hiányos volta vminek (incompletion), elsatnyulás (incompletion, retrogression), befejezetlenség (imperfection, incompletion), befejezetlen volta vminek (incompletion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | incompletezza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 半端 (fraction, fragment, incomplete set, odd sum, remnant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | は"ぱ (fraction, fragment, incomplete set, odd sum, remnant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuslanid, neuchreaghnys (infinity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incompletenessay незавершенность. (various references) tình trạng thiếu (incompletion, privation), tình trạng chưa l m xong (incompletion), tình trạng chưa đầy đủ tình trạng chưa ho n th nh (incompletion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "incompleteness": incompletenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "incompleteness" (pronounced 'In`com*plete"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness, Chasteness, Cheapness, Childness, Chillness, Choiceness, Chopness, Circumspectness, Cleanness, Clearness, Closeness, Coarseness, Coldness, Compactness, Completeness, Conciseness, Concreteness, Condignness, Conjointness, Coolness, Correctness, Corruptness, Coyness, Crankness, Crassness, Crispness, Crossness, Crudeness, Curstness, Curtness, Cuteness, Daftness, Dampness, Darkness, Deadness, Deafness, Dearness, Debauchness, Debonairness, Deepness, Deftness, Demureness, Devoutness, Diffuseness, Diluteness, Dimness, Directness, Direness, Dirkness, Diskindness, Dislikeness, Disperseness, Distinctness, Diverseness, Divineness, Dryness, Dueness, Dulceness, Dullness, Dumbness, Duskness, Erectness, Exactness, Expertness, Expressness, Faintness, Fairness, Falness, Falseness, Farness, Fastness, Fatness, Featness, Fellness, Ferdness, fewness, fineness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fleetness, Flushness, fondness, forgiveness, forlornness, Forswornness, foulness, frailness, frankness, Freeness, freshness, fullness, gameness, Gastness, gayness, genteelness, Ghastness, Gladness, Glibness, Glumness, Goneness, Goodness, grandness, graveness, grayness, greatness, greenness, grimness, grossness, grotesqueness, Halfness, hardness, harshness, Highness, hirsuteness, hoarseness, hotness, illness, immatureness, immenseness, impureness, incorrectness, incorruptness, indirectness, indistinctness, ineptness, inertness, inexactness, Inexpertness, Infirmness, insaneness, insecureness, Intenseness, intentness, justness, keenness, KINDNESS, lameness, Lankness, largeness, lateness, laxness, leanness, likeness, limpness, litheness, Loathness, Loneness, longness, looseness, loudness, loving-kindness, lowness, madness, matureness, meanness, meekness, Meetness, mildness, minuteness, moistness, Moreness, moroseness, Muchness, Muteness, Nearness, neatness, Newness, Niceness, Nighness, Northness, Numbness, Obeseness, Oblateness, Obliqueness, Obscureness, Obtuseness, Occultness, Oddness, Oldness, Oneness, Opaqueness, Ornateness, Oughtness, Outness, Overfullness, Overgreatness, Overlargeness, Overmuchness, Overthwartness, Paleness, Patness, Pertness, Perverseness, Piedness, Pinkness, Plainness, Platness, Plumpness, Politeness, Poorness, Primeness, Primness, Profaneness, Profoundness, Profuseness, Prolixness, Promptness, Proneness, Proudness, Pureness, Quaintness, Quakness, Queerness, Quickness, rankness, rareness, rashness, Rawness, Recluseness, redness, remissness, Repleteness, richness, rightness, ripeness, robustness, Rotundness, roughness, roundness, sadness, safeness, Sageness, Salineness, Saltness, sameness, saneness, scantness, Scrimpness, secureness, Seedness, Selectness, Selfness, Self-willedness, Sereneness, Setness, sharpness, shortness, shrillness, shyness, sickness, Silkness, Sincereness, slackness, sleekness, slickness, slightness, slimness, Sliness, Slopeness, slowness, slyness, smallness, smartness, smoothness, smugness, snugness, softness, Soleness, Soothness, soreness, soundness, sourness, Southness, spareness, sparseness, squareness, staidness, staleness, Stanchness, Starchness, starkness, Stayedness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stoutness, Straitness, strangeness, strictness, Stuntness, Sublimeness, Submissness, sureness, Swartness, sweetness, swiftness, tallness, tameness, tartness, thickness, thinness, Thwartness, tightness, tiredness, toughness, Trigness, trimness, trueness, Truthness, Underniceness, Undueness, Unfirmness, unharness, unlikeness, Unripeness, Unsadness, Unwellness, vagueness, Vainness, Vastness, Voidness, Wanness, Warmness, Wasteness, Weakness, Weirdness, Westness, Whereness, Whiteness, Wholeness, Wideness, Wildness, Wiseness, Woodness, Wrawness, Wrongness, Wryness, Youngness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-l-m-n-n-o-p-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: splenectomies. | |
-2 letters: completeness. | |
-3 letters: pestilences. | |
-4 letters: centesimos, comeliness, elopements, impotences, incomplete, insolences, limestones, milestones, nosepieces, penitences, penstemons, pestilence, politeness, selections, sentiences, simpletons, spleeniest, splenetics, telescopes. | |
-5 letters: centesimo, comeliest, completes, complines, elections, elopement, eminences, emptiness, enceintes, enlistees, epistomes, impotence, inclement, ineptness, insolence, insolents, leniences, licensees, limestone, limonenes, mestinoes, mileposts, milestone, monetises, neotenies, nepotisms, nescients, nosepiece, pemolines, penitence, penniless, penoncels, pensiones, penstemon, pinecones, pointless, polemists, policemen, politesse, potencies, seemliest, seicentos, selection, selectmen, selenites, semitones, senescent, sentences, sentience, sentinels, simpleton, sleepiest, solemnest, specimens, splenetic, spoilsmen, telescope, tenpences, toepieces. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-l-m-n-n-o-p-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: contemptibleness, incompletenesses. | |
+3 letters: complementariness, contemplativeness. | |
+4 letters: contemptiblenesses. | |
+5 letters: complementarinesses, contemplativenesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 6F 6D 70 6C 65 74 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01101100 01100101 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c o m p l e t e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 006F 006D 0070 006C 0065 0074 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380698179827871867180718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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