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limitlessness

limitlessness

1 8.9
A state with no end or edge
  • noun
  • /ˈlɪmɪtˌlɛs.nəs/
translation icon : ilimitación
  • She found inspiration in the limitlessness of the universe, feeling that anything was possible.

That's part of the limitlessness of the will.

Examples

  • A woman with money, however, is threatening to men because she is supposed to be limited, and money is a symbol of limitlessness.

    Academic text (1990)
  • And when both disease and eros are the subjects, this space is enriched with the doubled sense of limitlessness that death and desire bring about; thus, consumption may be the nexus of possibility that great literature and literary innovation embody.

    Academic text (1999)
  • These three men reminded us of the limitlessness of our hopes.

  • That's part of the limitlessness of the will.

  • I call it the human craving for, and horror of, the inhuman, of limitlessness, of monstrousness.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The Wendats perceived limitlessness.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The active network of spiritual transportation and ancestral planes is highlighted in Ragueneau's descriptions of the Wendats' shared sense of limitlessness.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Viewers of the cloud photographs, to Stieglitz's delight, professed to experience limitlessness and openness before them, and often claimed they lost all sense of individual bearing on the world.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The conclusion that God is incomprehensible to the human mind need not lead to a sad reflection on human limitedness; rather, it can lead to the exuberant celebration of God's limitlessness, a limitlessness that calls the human person into ever new realizations of the awesome mystery of existence.

    Academic text (2007)
  • However, no individual's ego matures or develops at the same rate throughout its psychic landscape, and thus even in an adult there are moments when the ego appears to have no boundary and one feels a seamless part of a larger whole—a feeling of "limitlessness and of a bond with the universe," as he put it.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

infinity
vslimitlessness
94 5.7

A time that never ends

is the general quality applying to any dimension not only time
endlessness
vslimitlessness
1 6.0

A state of having no end or limit

is the same quality but defined more generally not only time
infinitude
vslimitlessness
  • Literature
1 9.9

A state of having no limit or end

is the core quality rather than focusing on measurable extent
bottomlessness
vslimitlessness
1 9.3

A state of being extremely deep and seeming to have no end

is the neutral state of lacking limits rather than a deep image
unboundedness
vslimitlessness
9.9

A state of having no limits or end

is the general idea named differently rather than a technical term
infiniteness
vslimitlessness
8.8

The state of having no limits or end

is the broad concept expressed in simpler everyday wording
boundlessness
vslimitlessness
7.5

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

is the general quality without stressing spatial image

Antonyms

A condition of being limited in size or amount

How Unlimited

infinity
94 5.7
infinitude
  • Literature
1 9.9
limitlessness
1 8.9
endlessness
1 6.0

Surface Forms

limitlessness singular

Morphology

limitlessness = limitless (transparent) = limit + less + ness

Formed by regular adjective-to-noun derivation: 'limit' -> 'limitless' (limit + -less) -> 'limitlessness' (-ness), so the meaning follows standard English morphology.

Etymology

Limitlessness comes from limit ('edge') + -less ('without') and -ness (a state), so it means 'the state of having no limits'; imagine the open sky that seems to go on forever.