partialness

par·tial  (pärshl)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, being, or affecting only a part; not total; incomplete: The plan calls for partial deployment of missiles. The police have only a partial description of the suspect.

2. Favoring one person or side over another or others; biased or prejudiced: a decision that was partial to the plaintiff.

3. Having a particular liking or fondness for something or someone: partial to spicy food.

4. Mathematics Of or being operations or sequences of operations, such as differentiation and integration, when applied to only one of several variables at a time.

n.

1. Music See harmonic.

2. Mathematics A partial derivative.

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[Middle English parcial, from Old French, from Late Latin partilis, from Latin pars, part-, part; see part.]

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partial·ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

partialness - the state of being only a part; not total; incomplete incompleteness, rawness - the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect; "the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research"; "the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable"