Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being interminable; endlessness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being endless.
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- noun The state or condition of being
interminable .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That confrontation had an interminableness that had nothing to do with the actual passage of time.
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The dinners were certainly rather elaborate compared with the archaic repasts of Salem or of Concord; but they were as far inferior in grandeur and interminableness to the astonishing banquets at which, in some great houses, our father and mother were present.
Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890
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These shadows of memory tell, indistinctly, of tall figures that lifted and bore me in silence down -- down -- still down -- till a hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent.
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These shadows of memory tell, indistinctly, of tall figures that lifted and bore me in silence down -- down -- still down -- till a hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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