infinity

UK/ɪnˈfɪnɪti/US[ɪnˈfɪnɪɾi]

nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,442 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: infinities

Infinity is a quantity or a time with no end. To infinity, an infinity of possibilities, the infinity symbol.

Mathematics found that some infinities are larger than others, since the numbers between nought and one cannot be counted even against all the whole numbers. The sideways eight symbol was introduced in 1655.

Definitions of infinity

1nouninfinityA quantity or a time with no end.B2+
“The stars seemed to stretch into infinity above the dark desert.”

infinity is a quantity.

Where it comes from

Latin infinitas means unlimitedness, from in- plus finis, an end.

Latin
īnfīnitās — unlimitedness
Old French
infinité
Middle English
infinite
English, today
infinity

Built from

in- · Latin — not
fīnis · Latin — end

From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinité, from Latin īnfīnitās (“unlimitedness”), from negative prefix in- (“not”), + fīnis (“end”), + noun of state suffix -tās. by surface analysis, infinite + -ity.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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