interminability

State without terminus

Interminability is the quality of seeming to have no end.

The word emphasizes subjective experience—a boring lecture has interminability even if it lasts only an hour.

The interminability of the meeting drained everyone's patience.

The related adjective is interminable.

duration

endlessness

State without conclusion

everlasting · boundlessness · limitlessness · indefiniteness · continuousness · unending · ceaselessness · permanence · infinitude · foreverness

tedium

monotony

Tiresome lack of change

  • boredomWeary disinterest from monotony
  • ennuiWeary, listless dissatisfaction
  • wearinessState of being drained

dullness · drudgery · sameness · repetitiveness · tediousness · humdrum · dreariness · staleness · languor · fatigue

persistence

relentlessness

Unstoppable persistence

constant · continuous · perpetual · dogged · inexorable · unfaltering · tireless · unflagging · unwavering · unabating

Opposites
duration/temporal extent

interminabilitybrevity

Shortness of expression

briefness · shortness · transience · momentariness · fleetingness

boundedness/limitedness

interminabilityfiniteness

State of having endpoints

finitude · limitedness · boundedness · terminability · conclusiveness

Family

determine, terminal, determination, terminate, termination, exterminate, terminated, interminable, terminus

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