inexhaustibility

noun

The state or condition of being inexhaustible.

Scrabble 31

Meanings

nouninexhaustibility (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state or condition of being inexhaustible.

    Extending our view to the erection of moral and political systems, we find innumerable evidence of the inexhaustibility of patience.

    1851, Classic Union, No. 1 (I), Union University, page 226
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    He had produced the mightiest things as painter and sculptor. And, as if nature were to show her inexhaustibility in this single man, a position had been allotted him by the juncture of events, which at once placed before him, when as a young man he was just beginning to work for himself and the world, the highest task of all, and made him enter, in the twenty years which he had still before him, upon that work, by which he stands, in architecture also, as the greatest of modern masters.

    1865, Herman Friedrich Grimm, Life of Michael Angelo, Little, Brown, and Company, page 303

    Concerning the address, suffice it to say that the truth of the only statement upon which dissension has been raised —by a carping minority who have entirely misunderstood the real meaning implied—has been more fully verified at each subsequent sitting (we refer to the inexhaustibility of the herring-fisheries).

    1883, Nature, Macmillan and Company, page 35

    Synonyms: exhaustlessness

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe state or condition of being inexhaustible.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  9. Proto-Italic*eks
  10. Latinex
  11. Latinex-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-ye-ti
  14. Proto-Italic*auziō
  15. Latinhauriō
  16. Latinexhauriō
  17. Latinexhaustus
  18. Englishexhaust
  19. Englishexhaustible
  20. Englishinexhaustible
  21. Englishin-
  22. Englishexhaustible
  23. Englishexhaustibility
  24. Englishinexhaustibility

From inexhaustible + -ity or in- + exhaustibility.

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