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uncountable

/ʌnˈkaʊntəbəl/

noun

Meaning

  • (grammar) An uncountable noun.

adjective

Meaning

  • So many as to be incapable of being counted.

    "The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach."

  • Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.

    "Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable."

  • (grammar, of a noun) That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.

    "Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns."

Synonyms

non-count,
countless