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The quality of being infinite
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infinitude
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An infinite amount.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infinitude \In*fin"i*tude\, n. The quality or state of being infinite, or without limits; infiniteness. Infinite extent; unlimited space; immensity; infinity. ``I am who fill infinitude.'' --Milton. As pleasing to the fancy, as speculations of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Medieval Latin *infinitudo , from Latin infinitus on model of multitudo , magnitudo ; see infinite . Perhaps modeled on French infinitude (1610s).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an infinite quantity the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit [syn: infiniteness , unboundedness , boundlessness , limitlessness ] [ant: finiteness ]
Usage examples of infinitude.
Again the infinitude of the shrieking abysses flashed past him, but in another second he thought he was in a dark, muddy, unknown alley of foetid odors with the rotting walls of ancient houses towering up on every hand.
On this doctrine of the extermination of an infinitude of connecting links, between the living and extinct inhabitants of the world, and at each successive period between the extinct and still older species, why is not every geological formation charged with such links?
A new variety raised by man will be a far more important and interesting subject for study than one more species added to the infinitude of already recorded species.
They spoke of her rages and caressings, her coolths and unending dancings, sometimes lightly footing a minuet, some times furiously a-stamp, and her infinitude of secret parts.
Even extra-sensory perception reels dizzyingly away from that vast infinitude of absolute negation.
A sense of the infinitudes of time bridged by this volume overwhelmed him.
He read the veinings of a leaf, the pattern on a mushroom cap, and divined mysteries, relations, futures, possibilities: the magic of symbols, the foreshadowing of numbers and writing, the reduction of infinitudes and multiplicities to simplicity, to system, to concept.