uncountability

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ count +‎ -ability.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌʌn.kaʊnt.əˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/

Noun

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uncountability (countable and uncountable, plural uncountabilities)

  1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being uncountable.
    Antonym: countability
    the grammatical uncountability of a noun
    the uncountability of the stars in the night sky
    • 2015, Lawrence A. Babb, Understanding Jainism[1]:
      And short of infinity, uncountabilities abound. These fantastic quantities apply to the cosmos as a whole, the terrestrial disc, Mount Meru, the temporal cycles, the lifespans of deities and hell-beings and much else.
    • 1990, Luigi M. Ricciardi, Lectures in Applied Mathematics and Informatics[2], page 338:
      A stochastic process separable with respect to D is 2°-measurable, and one may reasonably assume that the fact that D is countable removes the discrepancies connected with “uncountabilities".