Meanings
- uncountableA state of incompletion; lack of finish; unfinishedness
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 Uploading3 more examples
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, MinimalistThe 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 InternetPeter 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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From un- (“lack of”) + finish (“completion”).
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unfinish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfinish
“unfinish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfinish. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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