Uncountably

Origin

uncountable + -ly or - + countably

Full definition of uncountably

Adverb

1. Too many to be counted (either by reason of being infinite or for practical constraints).The stars in the sky are uncountably many. Even a lifetime would not suffice to number them all.
2. (grammar) In an uncountable fashion.Some nouns can be used both countably and uncountably.
3. (mathematics) In a way that is incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
• 2004, Jayant V. Deshpande, Mathematical Analysis And Applications: An Introduction, page 55If a set is neither finite nor countably infinite, it is said to be uncountably infinite or simply uncountable.
4. Used as a general intensifier of amounts and quantities; very; much
• 1988, Jul 6, Systems Easily Tripped in Error Bring Death in a Lake, Warning Us of..., And the dimensions of death that can result from such systems tripped in error, or through misperceptions of reality, are uncountably greater than those
• 1990, Sep 20, Unplugging A Diverse Bit Of Cable TV, a host of other producers fear that a vital link to New York's uncountably diverse populations is about to be cut.
• 1997, Dec 29, Vapors And Serenity, And the memory of man runneth not to a year when there was an episode of disproportion comparable to the planet-wide vapors occasioned by one of the year's uncountably numerous automobile accidents, this one in Paris.
• 2006, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Technology, Literacy and the Evolution of Society, and the sheer quantity of material is uncountably greater
• 2007, Jan 17, Hippie and redneck show is equal parts insane, inane, Stories of road travel in the United States have taken uncountably many forms, from John Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley" and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" to "Little Miss Sunshine".