incompleteness

In watching Tarell soldier on while he creates, learning what his art should be as he wrestles with the gift of compassion, we come to understand what’s so aesthetically resounding in life’s gnawing incompleteness.

The rarity of Middle Jurassic pterosaur fossils and their incompleteness has previously hampered attempts to understand early pterosaur evolution.

However, the diversity of locomotor behaviors in living apes and the incompleteness of the fossil record have hampered the development of a clear picture of human bipedalism's origins.

While males were seen as whole and pristine, the female body was historically thought of "in terms of incompleteness or inversion," according to an analysis of Greek texts, including Aristotle.

The halting problem is a direct application of mathematician Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, which state that not all mathematical statements can be proved.