The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incompletion \In`com*ple"tion\, n.
Lack of completion; incompleteness.
--Smart.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1804, noun of action from incomplete.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or quality of not being complete 2 (context countable English) Something which is not completed 3 (context countable American football English) A forward pass which is not caught inbounds by the intended receiver
Usage examples of "incompletion".
Newcomers choose other Ridge-lines to settle in the Shadows of, Indian Priests proclaim it forbidden Ground, even unto the Lead-Mines beneath, Smugglers of Tobacco, Dye-stuffs, and edg'd Implements flee their Storage-Cabins in the middle of the night, leaving behind Inventories whose odd scavengers prove as little able to withstand the disconsolate spirit prevailing here, as if 'twere the Point upon which was being daily projected, some great linear summing of Human Incompletion, fail'd Arrivals, Departures too soon, mis-stated Intentions, truncations of Desire.
A sense of incompletion gnawed at him because they hadn't thrashed out the situation between them, but it would have to wait.
We'll arrange for the professors to grant approved incompletions for the classes and we'll be sure the registrar grants permission to interrupt studies without loss of academic standing or admission status.