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missingness

  • /ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/
  • /-nɪs/
  • /-nɛs/

Rhymes with -ɪsɪŋnəs

noun

  1. uncountable Absence. 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. uncountable Missing data; omission.
  3. uncountable The manner in which data are missing from a sample of a population. In large scale surveys the assumption of missingness at random is untenable.

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"missingness." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/missingness. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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missingness. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/missingness

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"missingness." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/missingness.

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@misc{missingness_2026,
  title = {missingness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/missingness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}