Completeness
[kəm'pli:tnɪs] or [kəm'plitnɪs]
Definition
(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.
(noun.) the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed.
Edited by Francine--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being complete.
Checker: Newman
Examples
- Only death would show the perfect completeness of the lie. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Idris had visited me; Idris I should again and again see--my imagination did not wander beyond the completeness of this knowledge. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- How repulsive her completeness and her finality was! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We have dwelt upon the completeness of that collapse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He realised it, he admitted it, it only needed one last effort on his own part, to win for himself the same completeness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Which Mr Boffin repeated with a highly satisfied air of completeness and finality. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And this was the very place to bring out the completeness of the renewal. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Revenge and rehabilitation might be hers at a stroke--there was something dazzling in the completeness of the opportunity. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Naumann's apparatus was at hand in wonderful completeness, and the sketch went on at once as well as the conversation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And the power to make him so lay in her hand--lay there in a completeness he could not even remotely conjecture. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He was hot and flushed, and was not dressed with his customary care and completeness. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Intellectually the existence of a whole depends upon a concern or interest; it is qualitative, the completeness of appeal made by a situation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The completeness of the analogy was, however, disturbed as she reached the sidewalk by the rapid approach of a hansom which pulled up at sight of her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The mechanical construction of the battery, as a whole, in its present form, compels instant admiration on account of its beauty and completeness. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is in the completeness of his daily life that the true Christian appears. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Editor: Ozzie