uncountable

adjective

not countable; incapable of having the total precisely ascertained: uncountable colonies of bacteria; uncountable kindnesses and small favors.

indefinitely large in number; infinite: the uncountable days of eternity.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see un-¹, countable

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uncountable (ʌnˈkaʊntəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	too many to be counted; innumerable
2.	linguistics See mass noun denoting a noun that does not refer to an isolable object

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