infinitude
pronunciation
How to pronounce infinitude in British English:
UK [ɪn'fɪnɪtju:d]
How to pronounce infinitude in American English:
US [ɪn'fɪnətjud]
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- Noun:
- an infinite quantity
- the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit
Word Origin
- infinitude (n.)
- 1640s, from Medieval Latin *infinitudo, from Latin infinitus on model of multitudo, magnitudo; see infinite. Perhaps modeled on French infinitude (1610s).
Example
- 1. A spree of weddings I attended this fall put me in the mindset to read about love and infinitude .
- 2. Imagine cramming yourself into such a puny box of identity when you could experience your infinitude instead .
- 3. In brief , the cosmic light is an intellectual light , with eternity and infinitude as two dimensions of its supreme , divine nature .
- 4. Where the universe is expressing itself in the magic of its laws it may not be strange if we miss its infinitude ; but where the heart gets into immediate touch with immensity in the beauty of the meanest of things , is any room left for argument ?
- 5. It is something we can sense and experience to some degree , but never completely apprehend its infinitude .