interminability

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interminability (uncountable)

  1. endlessness
    • 1750, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel[1]:
      At times, its interminability recalls "Clarissa Harlowe," but it possesses the traits' which were to mark the coming school of novel-writing in France and hence in the modern world []
    • 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers[2]:
      He lay in a semi-torpor, whose most vivid consciousness was that of mental discomfort and the interminability of time.