uncountability

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/ˌʌn.kaʊnt.əˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/

noun

The quality of being uncountable.

“the grammatical uncountability of a noun”

Opposite
Scrabble 21

Meanings

noununcountability (countable and uncountable, plural uncountabilities)

plural uncountabilities

  1. countableuncountableThe quality of being uncountable.

    the grammatical uncountability of a noun

    3 more examples

    the uncountability of the stars in the night sky

    And short of infinity, uncountabilities abound. These fantastic quantities apply to the cosmos as a whole, the terrestrial disc, Mount Meru, the temporal cycles, the lifespans of deities and hell-beings and much else.

    2015, Lawrence A. Babb, Understanding Jainism

    A stochastic process separable with respect to D is 2°-measurable, and one may reasonably assume that the fact that D is countable removes the discrepancies connected with “uncountabilities".

    1990, Luigi M. Ricciardi, Lectures in Applied Mathematics and Informatics, page 338

    Antonyms: countability

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe quality of being uncountable.

Opposite

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Latincomputō
  9. Anglo-Normancounter
  10. Middle Englishcounten
  11. Englishcount
  12. Englishuncountability

From un- + count + -ability.

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APA

uncountability. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncountability

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“uncountability.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncountability. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncountability,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncountability.

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