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Infinity vs Absoluteness - What's the difference?

infinity | absoluteness |

As nouns the difference between infinity and absoluteness

is that infinity is (label) endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit while absoluteness is (obsolete) the fact of being finished or perfected; completeness.

infinity

English

Noun

  • (label) Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit.
  • A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities' that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging ' infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
  • An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
  • (label) A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.
  • (label) The symbol .
  • Usage notes

    In mathematics there are several different infinities; see transfinite.

    Antonyms

    * finity

    See also

    * eternal * eternity * transfinite

    absoluteness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) The fact of being finished or perfected; completeness.
  • The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.
  • the absoluteness''' of his sovereignty,  the '''absoluteness of his convictions
  • Absolute authority, unlimited power; absolutism, despotism.
  • *, II.8:
  • I know no man that could produce more parts, both naturall and artificiall, fit to preserve his masterie, and to maintaine his absolutenesse , than he doth; yet is hee cleane falne from them like a childe.
  • The fact of being without qualifications or conditions; certainty, unconditionality.
  • Independent autonomy.
  • Synonyms

    *unconditionality *unlimitedness *certainty

    Antonyms

    *conditionality *limitedness *relativity