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Answer for the clue "The state of being incomplete and imperfect ", 14 letters:
incompleteness

Word definitions for incompleteness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or condition of being not complete.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incompleteness \In`com*plete"ness\, n. The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness. --Boyle.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being incomplete and imperfect [ant: completeness ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s; from incomplete + -ness .

Usage examples of incompleteness.

There was about the Madi tongue a complexity and yet an incompleteness which seemed to bind the tribe to its way, and which certainly entangled any human who tried to learn it.

Due to the incompleteness of remains, exact relations among particular taxa included here are still difficult to determine.

And until it takes the larger and deeper context into account, the limitations of its own shallower position will torment it, inflict it with the agony of incompleteness, tear at its boundaries with hints of something deeper, higher, more meaningful.