inchoate
adjective
not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
inchoateness
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a word derived from
inchoate.
Example Sentences
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As I read, I realized that in carving up the book I had unwittingly made a physical fact of its stylistic and thematic inchoateness.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2005
It is this inchoateness, this undifferentiatedness, that, apart from historical fact, makes us feel sure that logically the dance is primitive.
From Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison
Since then Scripture needs completion, the question is brought to this issue, whether defect or inchoateness in its doctrines be or be not an antecedent probability in favour of a development of them.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
But historically and also genetically or logically the dance in its inchoateness, its undifferentiatedness, comes first.
From Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison
