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boundlessness

boundlessness

7.5
The quality of having no limits in space, time, or size
  • noun
  • /ˈbaʊndləsnəs/
translation icon : ilimitación
  • In his dreams, he explored places defined by boundlessness, where nothing could limit his imagination.

So the question really just helps to, you know, appeal to that deeper sense of true boundlessness.

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Examples

  • Though it permits no truth against which it could be measured, truth appears negatively in the very boundlessness of the absurdity; and the undiscerning can be permanently kept from that truth only if they are wholly deprived of the faculty of thought.

    Academic text (1998)
  • He felt a sense of boundlessness when he hiked to the top of the mountain and looked down at the endless landscape.

  • Knowing the boundlessness of cosmic space, the variety of choice is overwhelming.

  • And that leap in consciousness involves us accepting the boundlessness of our true nature.

  • Here we find plentiful evidence of the inchoate boundlessness that characterized American Catholicism in the first half of the nineteenth century.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Many years ago, John Higham identified a transition in American culture "from boundlessness to consolidation," the beginnings of which could be traced to the 1850s.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Among antebellum Catholics, the outstanding exemplar of boundlessness in its purest form was surely Isaac T. Hecker.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Although he made no mention of American Catholicism, the concept of "boundlessness" seems sufficiently capacious to apply to the pioneering decades of Catholic development, and by midcentury a process of consolidation was definitely underway in that dimension of the national culture.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Moreover, Schapiro discerned in the artist's handling of form and compositional techniques a pretense of cultural freedom, a buoyancy and boundlessness that existed in the artworks but not outside them.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The boundlessness of the ocean fascinated her as she stared at the horizon.

Synonyms

infinity
vsboundlessness
94 5.7

A time that never ends

refers to the quality or state rather than a time period
endlessness
vsboundlessness
1 6.0

A state of having no end or limit

covers limitless quality more broadly, not only time
infinitude
vsboundlessness
  • Literature
1 9.9

A state of having no limit or end

is the broader term for that same infinite state
limitlessness
vsboundlessness
1 8.9

A state with no end or edge

expresses the same idea but in more general wording
unboundedness
vsboundlessness
9.9

A state of having no limits or end

is the general term for that same quality
infiniteness
vsboundlessness
8.8

The state of having no limits or end

is the general state term for that identical condition

Antonyms

56 4.1

A thing that has a limit in amount, size, or time

A condition of being limited in size or amount

How Unlimited

infinity
94 5.7
infinitude
  • Literature
1 9.9
boundlessness
7.5
endlessness
1 6.0

Surface Forms

boundlessness singular

Morphology

boundlessness = boundless (transparent) = bound + less + ness

The transformation from 'boundless' to 'boundlessness' is a standard noun formation indicating the state or quality of being without limits.

Etymology

Boundlessness breaks into bound + -less + -ness, where bound means 'limit' (as in boundary) and -less means 'without'. So, boundlessness is the 'state' of having no limits, which is why we use it for endless space or free imagination.