incompleteness
State of unfinished
Incompleteness is the state of being unfinished or lacking something essential.
A project shows incompleteness when key elements remain undone: The incompleteness of the report frustrated the committee.
In logic and mathematics, incompleteness has technical meaning—Gödel's incompleteness theorems proved that certain mathematical systems cannot prove all true statements within themselves.
Favoring one side
- fragmentaryConsisting of incomplete parts
- draftPreliminary version of text
- work-in-progressIncomplete but active endeavor
- ongoingIn progress now
rough · outline · sketch · provisional · interim · tentative · rudimentary · undeveloped
Deficient supply of necessities
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- lackDeficiency or absence
- deficitAmount still owed
- shortfallFailure to reach quota
inadequacy · scarcity · dearth · paucity · wanting · gap · omission · absence
Not present, whereabouts unknown
- partialFavoring one side
- gapsUnfilled spaces between
- errorsUnintentional deviations from correctness
- inconsistencyLack of steady pattern
validation · records · fields · entries · corrupted · truncated · null · blank
Absence of substance
- voidWithout legal effect
- absenceState of not being
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
- lackDeficiency or absence
negation · privation · fragmentation · partiality · imperfection · finitude · limitation · yearning
partial
Favoring one side
- fragmentaryConsisting of incomplete parts
- draftPreliminary version of text
- work-in-progressIncomplete but active endeavor
ongoing · rough · outline · sketch · provisional · interim · tentative · rudimentary · undeveloped · unpolished
shortage
Deficient supply of necessities
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
- lackDeficiency or absence
- deficitAmount still owed
shortfall · inadequacy · scarcity · dearth · paucity · wanting · gap · omission · absence · missing
missing
Not present, whereabouts unknown
inconsistency · validation · records · fields · entries · corrupted · truncated · null · blank · sparse
emptiness
Absence of substance
- voidWithout legal effect
- absenceState of not being
- nothingnessComplete absence of existence
lack · negation · privation · fragmentation · partiality · imperfection · finitude · limitation · yearning · longing
- OCDOCD, obsession, obsessions, compulsion, compulsions
- math logicaxioms, proofs, theorems, set theory, consistency
- wabi-sabiimperfection, impermanence, transience, patina, kintsugi
- deprivationlack, deprivation, need, want, shortage
- flawsfaults, defect, flaw, blemish, flaws
- fragmentsfragment, shard, splinter, shards, sliver
incompletenesscompleteness
State of being whole
wholeness · entirety · totality · fullness · intactness
incompletenesscompletion
Act of finishing
finality · conclusion · fulfillment · accomplishment · consummation
incompletenessperfection
Absence of any fault
adequacy · sufficiency · thoroughness · excellence · flawlessness
complete, completely, completed, incomplete, accomplish, compliment, completion, comply, deplete