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measurelessness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being unmeasured, or incapable of being measured; immoderateness.

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  • noun The state or condition of being measureless.

Etymologies

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measureless +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • But as we cannot describe or think out the Absolute in itself, beyond stability and movement, beyond unity and multitude,—nor is that at all our business,—we must accept the double fact, admit both Shiva and Kali and seek to know what is this measureless Movement in Time and Space with regard to that timeless and spaceless pure Existence, one and stable, to which measure and measurelessness are inapplicable.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Its eternity and universal reach entail neither measure nor measurelessness; given either, how could it be the measure of things?

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Now to the content of the divine order, the fixed quality, the measuredness and so forth — there is opposed the content of the evil principle, its unfixedness, measurelessness and so forth: total is opposed to total.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • The blind old scholar -- whose proud truthfulness would never enter into that commerce of feigned and preposterous admiration which, varied by a corresponding measurelessness in vituperation, made the woof of all learned intercourse -- had fallen into neglect even among his fellow-citizens, and when he was alluded to at all, it had long been usual to say that, though his blindness and the loss of his son were pitiable misfortunes, he was tiresome in contending for the value of his own labours; and that his discontent was a little inconsistent in a man who had been openly regardless of religious rites, and who in days past had refused offers made to him from various quarters, on the slight condition that he would take orders, without which it was not easy for patrons to provide for every scholar.

    Romola George Eliot 1849

  • a trace of that Highest Good in the Supreme; for, while utter measurelessness is brute Matter and wholly outside of Likeness, any participation in Ideal-Form produces some corresponding degree of Likeness to the formless Being There.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

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