Difference between Infinite and Infinity

What is the difference between Infinite and Infinity?

Infinite as an adjective is boundless, endless, without end or limits, innumerable. while Infinity as a noun is limitlessness, unlimitedness, something which is growing without limits or bounds.

Infinite

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Boundless, endless, without end or limits, innumerable. # Of an ordinal number, such that it is larger than any positive integer. # Of a set, such that its number of elements is not finite. # Very large.

Infinity

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Limitlessness, unlimitedness, something which is growing without limits or bounds.A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.The symbol ∞.

We hope you now know whether to use Infinite or Infinity in your sentence.

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