completeness

/kəmˈplitnɪs/
/kəmˈplitnɪs/
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Definitions of completeness
  1. noun
    the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed
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    antonyms:
    incompleteness
    the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect
    types:
    entireness, entirety, integrality, totality
    the state of being total and complete
    comprehensiveness, fullness
    completeness over a broad scope
    full treatment, kit and boodle, kit and caboodle, whole caboodle, whole kit, whole kit and boodle, whole kit and caboodle, whole shebang, whole works, works
    everything available; usually preceded by `the'
    type of:
    integrity, unity, wholeness
    an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
  2. noun
    (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
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    type of:
    logicality, logicalness
    correct and valid reasoning
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