infinity
pronunciation
How to pronounce infinity in British English:
UK [ɪnˈfɪnəti]
How to pronounce infinity in American English:
US [ɪnˈfɪnəti]
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- Noun:
- time without end
Word Origin
- infinity (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French infinité "infinity; large number or quantity" (13c.), from Latin infinitatem (nominative infinitas) "boundlessness, endlessness," from infinitus boundless, unlimited" (see infinite). Infinitas was used as a loan-translation of Greek apeiria "infinity," from apeiros "endless."
Example
- 1. Anaximander thought the principle of all things was infinity .
- 2. Public statistics are both socioeconomic and environmental , and stratified into infinity .
- 3. The repetitive geometrical shape of infinity aquarium creates a visual metaphor to life in the fish bowl .
- 4. Like smoke signals from infinity , these shape-shifters in the arctic night sky have the quality of some half-imagined fairytale .
- 5. The cries of seagulls are their music , fading into infinity , and the light-filled sky bursts open like a gateway out of the world .