endlessness

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end·less

(ĕnd′lĭs)

adj.

1. Being or seeming to be without an end or limit; boundless: an endless universe; an endless conversation.

2. Formed with the ends joined; continuous: an endless chain.

end′less·ly adv.

end′less·ness n.

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Noun

endlessness - the property of being (or seeming to be) without end

length, duration - continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required"

ceaselessness, continuousness, incessancy, incessantness - the quality of something that continues without end or interruption

endlessness

noun

The quality or state of having no end:

ceaselessness, eternality, eternalness, eternity, everlastingness, perpetuity, world without end.

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Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

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It gave you an awful sense of the infinity of space and of the endlessness of time.

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You read the consciousness of life that it is alive; but still no further away, no endlessness of life."

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that endlessness, my imagination of the room in which such "deep

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A butterfly, as in the first artwork, flits near the sacred pair, another allusion to the endlessness of life with Christ.

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"Sometimes in film, I miss the endlessness of dance.

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And then it ended, as illusions of endlessness often do, and we tumbled, as a family, into the truly endless and fathomless landscape of grief.

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Annihilating the possibility of horizon and thus for the first time able to depict the endlessness of the spherical, thus for the first time, a landscape not limited by an eye.

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Before he can risk pitching up there, Jaxie must cross the saltflats and find a hideout in the barren endlessness -- which is how we come to the hut of the title, and the second key character.