(n.) The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness.

absence adulteration beggary broken thread brokenness defectibility defectiveness deficiency deficit deprivation destitution disconnectedness disconnection discontinuance discontinuation discontinuity discontinuousness discreteness disjunction drought episode erroneousness fallibility famine faultiness fitfulness immaturity impairment imperfection impoverishment impurity inaccuracy inadequacy inadequateness incoherence inexactitude inexactness intermittence irregularity need non sequitur noncontinuance nonlinearity nonseriality nonuniformity omission parenthesis patchiness shortage shortcoming shortfall sketchiness starvation undevelopment unevenness unperfectedness unsoundness want wantage