ad infinitum

[ad in-fuh-nahy-tuh m, ad in-]

adverb

to infinity; endlessly; without limit.

Origin of ad infinitum

From Latin

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Contemporary Examples of infinitum

Teens who had been embarassed by Facebook postings and texts, easily captured and shared an infinitum, quickly glommed onto it.
Confide Is the Best Way to Keep Your Dastardly Deeds Hidden—For Now
Daniel Gross
January 17, 2014

Historical Examples of infinitum

And so the question returns in infinitum and again in infinitum.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
Leslie Stephen
To say, that we conceive them merely as solid, is to run on in infinitum.
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
The term employed by the mathematicians is progressus in infinitum.
The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
The division is, therefore, in infinitum, and not merely in indefinitum.
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'
Norman Kemp Smith
In this case the distinction between a progressus in infinitum and a progressus in indefinitum is a mere piece of subtlety.
The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant

British Dictionary definitions for infinitum

ad infinitum

adverb

without end; endlessly; to infinityAbbreviation: ad inf

Word Origin for ad infinitum

Latin

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Word Origin and History for infinitum

ad infinitum

Latin, literally "to infinity" from infinitum "infinity," neuter of adjective infinitus "endless" (see infinite).