COMPLETENESS

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

Credits

Context examples:

There was in his nature a logical compulsion toward completeness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The prognosis depends on the completeness of the surgical resection, the number of lymph nodes involved by cancer, and the presence or absence of postoperative complications.

(Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

The Clinical Trials Protocol and Data Management Shared Resource provides administrative support for Clinical Trials: assistance with protocol and budget development, submission and maintenance of IRB documentation, transmission of required information to study sponsors and federal oversight agencies, coordination of IRB approval, protocol conduct and data collection with affiliated institutions, data retrieval and data transcription in compliance within the guidelines of GCP, quality assurance to ensure completeness and accuracy of data, maintenance of protocol and patient registration system, protocol monitoring and generation of reports, hiring/training of data managers, contract development and management.

(Clinical Trials Protocol and Data Management Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

He had never learned to read nor write, but his vocabulary was remarkable, and more remarkable still was the completeness with which he had assumed the white man's point of view, the white man's attitude toward things.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But, his joy received a sudden check; for within five minutes, he returned in the custody of a sheriff “s officer, informing us, in a flood of tears, that all was lost. We, being quite prepared for this event, which was of course a proceeding of Uriah Heep's, soon paid the money; and in five minutes more Mr. Micawber was seated at the table, filling up the stamps with an expression of perfect joy, which only that congenial employment, or the making of punch, could impart in full completeness to his shining face. To see him at work on the stamps, with the relish of an artist, touching them like pictures, looking at them sideways, taking weighty notes of dates and amounts in his pocket-book, and contemplating them when finished, with a high sense of their precious value, was a sight indeed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And while the whole face was the incarnation of fierceness and strength, the primal melancholy from which he suffered seemed to greaten the lines of mouth and eye and brow, seemed to give a largeness and completeness which otherwise the face would have lacked.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Civilized, he could have died for a moral consideration, say the defence of Judge Miller’s riding-whip; but the completeness of his decivilization was now evidenced by his ability to flee from the defence of a moral consideration and so save his hide.