immeasurableness

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But the absence of a consciousness of measure or finitude is one thing; the presence of a consciousness of immeasurableness or infinity is another.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil

For novelty gives immeasurableness to fear, and fills the early time of all sad changes with phantoms of the future.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George

The sense of the immensity, the immeasurableness of things, is more intimate and profound.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)

And there, leaned o'er the wave and o'er the immeasurableness, Calm, silent, have you harkened what it says?

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

The passage which I am going to cite first of all revealed to me the immeasurableness of the morally sublime.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas