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From un- +‎ countableCategory:English terms prefixed with un- (negative)#COUNTABLE.

uncountable (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#UNCOUNTABLE Category:English adjectives#UNCOUNTABLE Category:English uncomparable adjectives#UNCOUNTABLE Category:English entries with incorrect language header#UNCOUNTABLE Category:Pages with entries#UNCOUNTABLE Category:Pages with 1 entry#UNCOUNTABLE

So many as to be incapable of being counted.
Synonyms: countless, uncounted, numberless, innumerable; see also Thesaurus:innumerable

Antonym: countable

The reasons for our failure were as uncountable as the grains of sand on a beach.
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- 1988 July 13, Douglas Martin, “About New York; Tasting History Through Papers That Age Well”, in The New York Times‎:
  Mr. Chambre has since spent uncountable hours and even more uncountable dollars buying upward of 23,000 documents, and he figures to be just hitting speed.
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(mathematics Category:en:Mathematics#UNCOUNTABLE) Incapable of being put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
Antonym: countable

Hypernym: infinite

Cantor’s “diagonal proof” shows that the set of real numbers is uncountable.
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(grammar Category:en:Grammar#UNCOUNTABLE, of a noun) That cannot be used freely with numbers or the indefinite article, and therefore usually takes no plural form. Example: information.
Synonyms: noncount, non-count

Antonym: countable

Many languages do not distinguish countable nouns from uncountable nouns.
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One meaning in law of the usually uncountable noun "information" is used in the plural and is countable.
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too many to be counted

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mathematics: incapable of being enumerated by natural numbers

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linguistics: about a noun which cannot be counted

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uncountable (plural uncountables)Category:English lemmas#UNCOUNTABLE Category:English nouns#UNCOUNTABLE Category:English countable nouns#UNCOUNTABLE Category:English entries with incorrect language header#UNCOUNTABLE Category:Pages with entries#UNCOUNTABLE Category:Pages with 1 entry#UNCOUNTABLE

(grammar Category:en:Grammar#UNCOUNTABLE) A noun that is uncountable.
Synonyms: mass noun, noncount noun, non-count noun, uncountable noun

Antonyms: countableCategory:English links with manual fragments#UNCOUNTABLE, count noun, countable noun
- 1988, Anna Wierzbicka, The Semantics of Grammar, page 440:
  But inherent uncountables such as 'stuffs' can be conceptualized in two different ways, depending on whether they are viewed in terms of quantity or in terms of quality.
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