superinfinite

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Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ infinite

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /suːpəɹˈɪnfɪnɪt/

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superinfinite (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Absolutely infinite; being beyond what is conventionally infinite.
    • 1869, Thomas Harper, Henry James Coleridge, Sermons By Fathers of The Society of Jesus, Volume 2[1], Burns, Oates, page 201:
      He contemplates His own superexcellent, superinfinite Being. And contemplating, He conceives it, one simple, everlasting, infinite act.
    • 1916, John Duncan Quackenbos, Body and Spirit: An Inquiry Into the Subconscious, Based upon Twelve Thousand Experiences in the Author's Practice[2], Harper & Brothers, page 103:
      The pseudo-genius, with his eccentricities, neurotic expression, and irresponsibility, is a vastly different product, and gives color to the contention of some alienists that the relation between insanity and genius is close. The author of this volume admits that brilliant flights of genius are supernormal, perhaps superinfinite, but he declines to construe them as pathological.
    • 1981, Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe, Volumes 10-11[3], Ecumenical Press, Temple University, page 42:
      Realization of the transcendence of the world gives birth to transcendent thinking. This thinking is a limitless one and gradually evelops all the superinfinite. Once appeared in BEING such intelligence is doomed to exist.