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Countless vs Countable - What's the difference?

countless | countable |

As adjectives the difference between countless and countable

is that countless is too many to count; innumerable or incalculable while countable is capable of being counted; having a quantity.

countless

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Too many to count; innumerable or incalculable
    • There is a countless number of stars

    countable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
  • (mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
  • (mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite or finite; having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers.
  • (grammar, of a noun) Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers, and therefore having a plural form.

    • Synonyms

    * (having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers) denumerable

    Antonyms

    * uncountable

    Hyponyms

    * (having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers) finite, countably infinite

    Hypernyms

    * (countably infinite) infinite

    Derived terms

    * countable set * countable additivity

    Related terms

    * countability

    See also

    * mass noun * plurale tantum