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Complacence vs Completeness - What's the difference?

complacence | completeness |

As nouns the difference between complacence and completeness

is that complacence is (archaic) being complacent; a feeling of contentment or satisfaction; complacency while completeness is the state or condition of being complete.

complacence

English

Noun

(-)
  • (archaic) Being complacent; a feeling of contentment or satisfaction; complacency.
  • * Atterbury
  • The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously.
  • (obsolete) Pleasure, delight.
  • * Milton
  • O thou, my sole complacence .
  • (obsolete) Complaisance; a willingness to comply with others' wishes.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, pp. 33-4:
  • He told his sister, if she pleased, the new-born infant should be bred up together with little Tommy; to which she consented, though with some little reluctance: for she had truly a great complacence for her brother [...].

    Synonyms

    * self-complacency * self-satisfaction

    completeness

    Noun

    (-)
  • the state or condition of being complete
  • (logic) The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T'' represent a theory within logic ''L'', this can be represented as the property that whenever T \vDash \phi is true, then T \vdash \phi must also be true, for any wff ''φ'' of logic ''L .
  • *
  • THEOREM 37°. (Gödel's completeness theorem 1930.) In the predicate calculus H'':
    (a) ''If'' \vDash F [''or even if'' \aleph_0-\vDash F], ''then'' \vdash F. ''If'' E_1, . . . , E_k \vDash F [''or even if'' E_1, . . . , E_k \ \aleph_0-\vDash F], ''then
    E_1, . . . , E_k \vdash F.
    (b) [...]

    Synonyms

    *(state of being complete ): completion

    Antonyms

    * incompleteness