INCOMPLETENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect

Example:

the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable

Synonyms:

incompleteness; rawness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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)