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endlessness

endlessness

1 6.0
A state of having no end or limit
  • noun
  • /ˈɛndləsnəs/
translation icon : infinidad
  • The endlessness of the universe makes us wonder about life beyond our planet.

Because it's infinite, you know, the fact that it doesn't end would mean you, you can't see that endlessness, can you?

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Examples

  • Sometimes Mohamedi inserted shapes and triangles, which seemingly take off into the endlessness of space.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Kusama Yayoi, born just three years before Tanaka, seems to share an interest in issues of finitude and endlessness.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The endlessness of possibilities, which would not end until the last of them was lost in her.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • There is the endlessness of eternity, rolling and rolling.

    Blog text (11)
  • Time, in its endlessness, brings you to a complete recitation.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • That's to say, the only way to arrest the open futurity and endlessness of the imperial time was to bring time itself to a close.

  • And the last paragraph underscores the endlessness by suggesting that even the apparent end, the death of that sadness, does not bring renewal.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Now it spread before me, first into the predictable endlessness of skies and stars; and, beyond them, into vast spaces of night through which our carriage and our two innocent, healthy horses must also pass.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • The topography of out has essentially this nature: an endlessness of potential movement, little of which is continuous or long and smooth, much of which is characterized by abrupt, discontinuous switching.

    Academic text (2006)
  • A historian has stressed that the engineer's imagination had difficulty keeping up with the endlessness of Panama's mass, a mass that literally twisted and overturned pristine lines like those of railway tracks in photographs.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

eternity
vsendlessness
224 5.8

Time that never ends, often imagined after death

is a more neutral word for lack of end rather than a time focus
infinity
vsendlessness
94 5.7

A time that never ends

is broader, applying to lack of end beyond just time
forever
vsendlessness
12 1.4

A very long time with no end

can also describe lack of end in general, not only long time
infinitude
vsendlessness
  • Literature
1 9.9

A state of having no limit or end

is the same state but can stress seeming rather than strictness
limitlessness
vsendlessness
1 8.9

A state with no end or edge

focuses more on the idea of end or limit, not physical borders
infiniteness
vsendlessness
8.8

The state of having no limits or end

allows the idea to be strict or only seeming lack of end
unboundedness
vsendlessness
9.9

A state of having no limits or end

adds the sense that this lack may appear infinite rather than certain
boundlessness
vsendlessness
7.5

The quality of having no limits in space, time, or size

can also be used when something only seems limitless rather than truly so
everlastingness
vsendlessness
9.9

A state of lasting forever

refers to the general quality of having no end rather than only duration
eternality
vsendlessness
8.4

Lasting forever without a beginning or end

is a broader label for having no end, not only eternity
foreverness
vsendlessness
8.3

A state of seeming to last or really lasting without an end

is the general concept of having no end or limit beyond duration
inexhaustibility
vsendlessness
9.5

A quality of having a supply that never runs out

focuses instead on end or limit rather than supply or resources
apeiron
vsendlessness
  • Formal
9.9

An endless, boundless origin of everything in ancient Greek thinking

is the common term for lacking an end or any limits

Antonyms

167 3.3

A condition that stops a person or thing from doing more

1 8.0

The state of having limits in size, amount, or time

How Infinite

endlessness
1 6.0
duration
104 2.8
shortness
1 3.5

Surface Forms

endlessness singular
endlessnesses plural

Morphology

endlessness = endless (transparent) = end + less + ness

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'endless', yielding 'the state of being endless'.

Etymology

The word endlessness starts with the common word end and ends with -less, which means 'without'. So endlessness is the state of being 'without an end', like when something feels infinite or never stopping.