Missingness

//ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Absence. uncountable

    "So far, we assume that he took the rifle from the cabinet to throw blame by its missingness — I mean, its absence — on some one else."

  2. 2
    Missing data; omission. uncountable
  3. 3
    The manner in which data are missing from a sample of a population. uncountable

    "In large scale surveys the assumption of missingness at random is untenable."

Synonyms

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absence

Example

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"So far, we assume that he took the rifle from the cabinet to throw blame by its missingness — I mean, its absence — on some one else."

Etymology

From missing + -ness.

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