innumerability

Hero the lurking fallacy is unearthed; for who will seriously maintain that the innumerability of any series of objects—the stars, for instance —is a proof of their non-existence.

1853, Samuel Neil, The Art of Reasoning, Walton and Maberly, page 124

And its interminably repeated successions of stores of a certain kind—grocery, meat-market, delicatessen shop, “notion” store, saloon—recurring block after block, mile after mile, with paintshop, hat - store, men’s furnishing store, crockery - store, thrown in at perfectly regular intervals, are unexampled anywhere; they are, in their far-flung innumerability, a special expression of civilization in themselves. And, over all, the great, free, rapid, powerful, efficient movement of the mass: in the midst of it the new-comer begins to learn at last—especially when he has got over wanting his hulled corn and his Kennedy’s crackers— that he is really not in a “ jay town.”

1902, Harper's Weekly 1902-06-28: Volume 46, Issue 2375, page 810

I was once for the first time made aware of the Hibernian origin of a partner by his antics over an astonishing putt which won him the hole : for a moment of time his club might have been a shillelah, his feet moved to a jig. Golf brings out idiosyncrasies and peculiarities. Sometimes it brings out more than these ! Hence, perhaps, the innumerability of the anecdotes anent the irrepressibility of profanity while playing the game — a game proverbially provocative of reprehensible expletives. My eyes were lately opened to this sinister peculiarity when playing with a man, the author of a ponderous work, noted for the precision, even for the purism, of his diction. Usually he spake as he wrote\, and he wrote for gentlemen learned in the law.

1910, Arnold Haultain, The Mystery of Golf, The Macmillan Company, page 197