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ˈinfiniteness Now rare.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being infinite; infinitude, infinity. a. Boundlessness, illimitableness.
1534Whitynton Tullies Offices i. D, To the entent we maye auoyde that infynytenesse of Ennius [who recommended giving charity to all], that degree is nygher that is of the same kynne. 1552Huloet, Infynytenes, apiria. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. xv. (1634) 232 They which by faith perceive what he is, have comprehended the whole infinitenesse of heavenly good things. 1608A. Willet Hexapla Exod. 39 Shewing his..perfection, goodnesse, infinitenes. 1645Ussher Body Div. (1647) 36 What is Infinitenesse? It is an essentiall property of God, whereby all things in his essence are signified to be without measure and quantity. 1700D. Phillips Proteus Rediv. 11 The Schools talk of the Infiniteness of Space. 1813Shelley Q. Mab viii. 206 The thoughts that rise In time-destroying infiniteness. 1894F. M. Elliot Rom. Gossip v. 162 There was infiniteness in the look-out over a boundless sea.
b. Indefiniteness of amount or number; usually in hyperbolical sense: The state of being exceedingly great or numerous; immensity, vastness; immense quantity or number.
1579J. Jones Preserv. of Bodie & Soule Ep. Ded. 2 The infinitenesse of creatures doeth declare the power. 1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. x. 85 Very few in respect of that infiniteness of people, wherewith ægypt doth and ever did abound. 1633Ford Love's Sacr. iv. i, More base in the infiniteness of her sensuality than corruption can infect. 1654Cokaine Dianea ii. 124 Complaining on the infinitenesse of his Miseries. |