missingness /ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/ noun3 •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. — 1931 •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. — 1992 •Missing data; omission.