measurelessnessn.
/ˈmɛʒələsnəs/, U.S. /ˈmɛʒərləsnəs/ Chiefly literary and poetic.
Immeasurableness; immeasurable or infinite extent or quantity.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > vastness of quantity or amount > unmeasured or unmeasurable
unmeasuredness1435
immensityc1450
immeasurableness1561
immeasurability1824
measurelessness1854
1854 J. S. C. Abbott in Harper's New Monthly Mag. Feb. 326/2 The measurelessness of the calamity.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xix. 315 Feigned and preposterous admiration..varied by a corresponding measurelessness in vituperation.
1925–6 R. Jeffers Coll. Poetry (1988) I. 347 The stars forming and dying In the measurelessness of his lost mind.
1989 ELH 56 54 One signpost among others in the semantic field of measurelessness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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