Epätyhjentävä

Epätyhjentävä is a Finnish adjective that translates to "non-exhaustive" or "incomplete" in English. It is used to describe something that does not cover all aspects of a topic or does not fully satisfy a certain condition. For instance, a list of examples might be described as epätyhjentävä if it omits important items. Similarly, an explanation could be considered epätyhjentävä if it leaves out crucial details.

The term is often encountered in legal or academic contexts where precision and completeness are important. An epätyhjentävä survey, for example, might fail to gather data from a representative sample of the population. In mathematics, an epätyhjentävä proof would be one that has logical gaps or fails to establish the proposition conclusively.

The antonym of epätyhjentävä is tyhjentävä, which means "exhaustive" or "complete." When something is described as tyhjentävä, it implies that it has covered every relevant point or fully met the requirements. The prefix "epä-" in Finnish is a common way to negate adjectives, so "epätyhjentävä" directly signifies the absence of exhaustiveness.