uncountability

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English un-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin putus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin putō

Latin computō

Anglo-Norman counterbor.

Middle English counten

English count

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin -abilitas

Middle French -abletébor.

Middle English -ablete

English -ability

English uncountability

From un- + count + -ability.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌn.kaʊnt.əˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/

Noun

uncountability (countable and uncountable, plural uncountabilities)

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being uncountable.

   Antonym: countability

   the grammatical uncountability of a noun

   the uncountability of the stars in the night sky

   • 2015, Lawrence A. Babb, Understanding Jainism‎^[1]:

     And short of infinity, uncountabilities abound. These fantastic quantities apply to the cosmos as a whole, the terrestrial disc, Mount Meru, the temporal cycles, the lifespans of deities and hell-beings and much else.

   • 1990, Luigi M. Ricciardi, Lectures in Applied Mathematics and Informatics‎^[2], page 338:

     A stochastic process separable with respect to D is 2°-measurable, and one may reasonably assume that the fact that D is countable removes the discrepancies connected with “uncountabilities".