incompletion

[ in-kuhm-plee-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1795–1805; in- ³ + completion

The authentic incompletion of the neid afforded a good pretext for cuts and erasures.

Desire and need have been treated as signs of deficiency, and endeavor as proof not of power but of incompletion.

Incompletion of the radical is one of the commonest causes of words being coined faultily.

Northward of this tomb is a sarcophagus that shows a well laid plan in a state of perpetual incompletion.

He supposed he had apprehended dimly the risk of this incompletion in Paris during that first Long Vacation.

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