Infinite vs Sempiternal - What's the difference?
infinite | sempiternal |
Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
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* (and other bibliographic particulars) Milton
Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
* Bible, Psalms cxlvii. 5
With plural noun: infinitely many.
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(mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
(set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.
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(grammar) Not limited by person or number.
(music) Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
Infinitely many.
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Seemingly everlasting or eternal.
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(philosophy) everlasting, that is having infinite temporal duration; as opposed to eternal, outside time and thus lacking temporal duration
As a noun infinite
is infinity, endlessness.As an adjective sempiternal is
seemingly everlasting or eternal.infinite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The number is so infinite , that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.
- Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least cannot sink.
- infinite riches in a little room
- which infinite calamity shall cause to human life
- Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite .
- Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic treatise by Adam Smith.
- For any infinite set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers, which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.
Usage notes
Although the term is incomparable in the precise sense, it can be comparable both in mathematics and set theory to compare different degrees of infinity, and informally to denote yet a larger thing.Synonyms
* amaranthine * boundless * countless * endless * immeasurable * inestimable * interminable * limitless * unbounded * unlimited * vastAntonyms
* finite * infinitesimal * limitedHyponyms
* (set theory) countably infinite * (set theory) uncountableDerived terms
* infinitely * infinitesimal * infinitude * infinityNumeral
(head)sempiternal
English
Adjective
(-)- The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle.
A sneak-peek at 'just friends' of filmdom!", ZeeNews , August 2,
- but in filmdom, the sempiternal question continues: Can a male and female actor be just 'good friends'?