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unfinish

unfinish noun: a state of incompletion; lack of finish; unfinishedness.

Noun

unfinish (uncountable)

  1. A state of incompletion; lack of finish; unfinishedness
    • But, in Simmel's view, it also relates specifically to a distinctive feature of Rodin's work, its state of unfinish.2000, Alex Potts, The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist
    • The movie raised quite real and diverse questions of unfinish. As it opened widely in late 2007, the producers stressed that the two sequels would be filmed if and only if the box office figures for this first venture were sufficiently astonishing.2009, David Wallace Booth, Shelley Peterson, Carol Jupiter, Books, Media & the Internet

Examples of unfinish in a sentence

  • One way to increase stickiness is to use the culture machine to add a quality of unfinish to its production.2011, Peter Lunenfeld, The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading:
  • Peter Lunenfeld explores the idea of “unfinish” in a deliberately “unfinished” essay, first published in 1999 as the full scope of the digital revolution was becoming apparent: […]2014, M. Reimer, N. Ali, D. England, Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat:

Origin of unfinish

From un- (“lack of”) + finish (“completion”).

Words that rhyme with unfinish

Questions about unfinish

What does unfinish mean?
Unfinish means a state of incompletion; lack of finish; unfinishedness.
How do you use unfinish in a sentence?
One way to increase stickiness is to use the culture machine to add a quality of unfinish to its production.
What part of speech is unfinish?
Unfinish is a noun.

Words near unfinish in the dictionary

  1. unfinessed
  2. unfingered
  3. unfingerprinted
  4. unfinical
  5. unfinicky
  6. unfinish
  7. unfinishable
  8. unfinished
  9. unfinished business
  10. unfinishedly
  11. unfinishedness

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