ENDLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endlessness mean? 

• ENDLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun ENDLESSNESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of being (or seeming to be) without end

  Familiarity information: ENDLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDLESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being (or seeming to be) without end

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("endlessness" is a kind of...):

duration; length (continuance in time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "endlessness"):

ceaselessness; continuousness; incessancy; incessantness (the quality of something that continues without end or interruption)

Derivation:

endless (having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole)

endless (having no known beginning and presumably no end)

endless (infinitely great in number)

endless (tiresomely long; seemingly without end)

 Context examples 

You read the consciousness of life that it is alive; but still no further away, no endlessness of life.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)