What is the difference between countless and uncountable?
countless | uncountable |
Too many to count; innumerable or incalculable
So many as to be incapable of being counted.
(mathematics) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
(grammar, of a noun) Describes a meaning of a noun that cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and which therefore takes no plural form. Example: information .
As adjectives the difference between countless and uncountable
is that countless is too many to count; innumerable or incalculable while uncountable is so many as to be incapable of being counted.As a noun uncountable is
an uncountable noun.countless
English
Adjective
(head)- There is a countless number of stars
uncountable
English
Adjective
(-)- The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
- Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable .
- Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
- One meaning in law of the supposedly uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.