Missingness
/ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 Missing data; omission. uncountable
- 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."
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"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.