ad infinitum
/æd ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.48 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on."
- "The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
- British English: /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/