Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being complete; perfectness; entireness; thoroughness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being complete.

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  • noun the state or condition of being complete
  • noun logic The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever is true, then must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed
  • 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

Etymologies

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complete +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • This kind of completeness is rare in parasitic twins, especially among fetus in fetu, which tend not to be "alive" in the sense we think of, but rather a sort of growth in human form.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • This kind of completeness is rare in parasitic twins, especially among fetus in fetu, which tend not to be "alive" in the sense we think of, but rather a sort of growth in human form.

    How Twins Go Bad Heather McDougal 2009

  • The Llangollen couple were famous for their gardens, and Dorothy creates here likewise a "garden stored with fruits and flowers/And sunny seats and shady bowers," supporting a life whose completeness is emphasized through the repetition of

    'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes 2006

  • For us moderns that which most profoundly marks a narrative poem as an epic, is a certain completeness and harmony, a general impression of rest, however the various episodes may be charged with suffering and struggle.

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1924 - Presentation 1924

  • So, dying isn’t bad, for the person who dies, they are truely going home to be whole and loved in completeness again.

    We, Who Need Such Great Mysteries | Her Bad Mother 2010

  • In most applications of preference logic, it is taken for granted that the following property, called completeness or connectedness, should be satisfied:

    Preferences Hansson, Sven Ove 2006

  • Secondly, the other direction, that is, the completeness part, is proved by what is really known as the Lindenbaum-Tarski method.

    Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic Jansana, Ramon 2006

  • Then we establish a converse, called completeness, that an argument is valid only if it is derivable.

    Classical Logic Shapiro, Stewart 2000

  • But this higher completeness, which is beauty, whether it happen to exist or not, is never the immediate aim of Nature.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

  • The instinct for completeness, which is one of the dominating characteristics of his mind, compelled him to consent.

    The History of the Telephone 1910

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  • (analysis)

    a metric space is called complete if every Cauchy sequence converges to an element of the space

    March 21, 2011