partnessn.
/ˈpɑːtnəs/, U.S. /ˈpɑrtnəs/ The fact or quality of being partial or incomplete, or of being a separate entity.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [noun]
halfness1530
incompleteness1644
partialness1701
partiality1822
fragmentariness1836
partness1925
1925 D. H. Lawrence Let. ?26 Jan. (1962) II. 828 Any relation based on the one half—say the delicate spiritual half alone—inevitably brings revulsion and betrayal. It is halfness, or partness, which causes Judas.
1945 A. Koestler Yogi & Commissar 240 Isolation destroys their very character of ‘part-ness’.
1960 Ethics 70 165/1 He becomes, as a result of this partness and replaceability, less important, less distinct and individual..than he was formerly.
2000 Systems Res. & Behavioral Sci. (Nexis) 1 Nov. 17 513 The self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the unit's ‘wholeness’, the integrative tendency of its partness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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