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interminability

interminability noun: endlessness.

Noun

interminability (uncountable)

  1. endlessness
    • At times, its interminability recalls "Clarissa Harlowe," but it possesses the traits' which were to mark the coming school of novel-writing in France and hence in the modern world[…]1750, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel
    • He lay in a semi-torpor, whose most vivid consciousness was that of mental discomfort and the interminability of time.1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers

Questions about interminability

What does interminability mean?
Interminability means endlessness.
What part of speech is interminability?
Interminability is a noun.

Words near interminability in the dictionary

  1. intermicturition
  2. intermigration
  3. intermigrations
  4. intermilitary
  5. intermillennial
  6. interminability
  7. interminable
  8. interminableness
  9. interminables
  10. interminably
  11. interminate

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