infinitude

Examples

• All

• Noting that many people feel defeated by circumstances, he recommended that they counter their melancholy by remembering their own infinitude.

  Academic text (1993)

• I experience a sort of terror when, at the moment of setting to work and finding myself before the infinitude of possibilities that present themselves, I have the feeling that everything is permissible to me.

  Academic text (1993)

• I think that movement represents the infinitude of what we have in the natural world.

  WIRED

• What godawful things might be happening in all the rest of the infinitude?

  Fiction book (1997)

• He lives in a void of infinitude, in a castle of eternity.

  Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)

• An infinitude of cheerful birds came to drink at musical fountains emptying into granite vessels.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The lavishness, the extravagance, the infinitude! An infinitude of power; an infinitude of joy; an infinitude of love, even for the ugly hippopotamus, even for the crocodile with his terrifying teeth, even for creatures made mythical through ancient lore.

  Academic text (1998)

• "For Cartier-Bresson, the 'artless art' of photography involves the photographer's ability to seize this 'decisive' opportunity when it presents itself: to frame the accidental, isolating the crucial instant from the infinitude of banal moments surrounding it.

  Academic text (2005)

• The artist's imagination seemed to embrace the infinitude of the universe, producing works that reflected endless possibilities.

• In mathematics, the concept of infinitude often arises when discussing limits and the behavior of functions as they approach infinity.

Synonyms

E

eternity

vsinfinitude

224 5.8

Time that never ends, often imagined after death

refers to lack of limits in any domain rather than only time

I

infinity

vsinfinitude

94 5.7

A time that never ends

is the broader state of having no limit beyond time

E

endlessness

vsinfinitude

1 6.0

A state of having no end or limit

is the true lack of limit rather than only seeming so

L

limitlessness

vsinfinitude

1 8.9

A state with no end or edge

is the same meaning expressed with another word form

U

unboundedness

vsinfinitude

9.9

A state of having no limits or end

is the same idea but differs only in word choice

I

infiniteness

vsinfinitude

8.8

The state of having no limits or end

is the same concept but appears in a different word form

B

boundlessness

vsinfinitude

7.5

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

shares meaning but is a different lexical form

A

apeiron

vsinfinitude

• Formal

9.9

An endless, boundless origin of everything in ancient Greek thinking

is the general concept of having no limits outside that philosophy

Antonyms

F

finitude

1 9.9

The fact that something has limits or an end

How Unlimited

infinity

94 5.7

infinitude

• Literature

1 9.9

boundlessness

7.5

limitlessness

1 8.9

endlessness

1 6.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology