uncountability

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ count +‎ -ability.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌn.kaʊnt.əˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/

Noun

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".