A modern dictionary of Catholic terms, both common and obscure.
Find accurate definitions of words and phrases. That which has
no bounds or limitations. Something can be called infinite in
different ways. It can be actually infinite, meaning a positive
reality without limit. It can be infinitely perfect when it is
unlimited in perfection of being or of operation; when it
possesses every pure perfection in every way and in perfect
degree. It can be potentially infinite when, as a finite
reality, it is capable of actual or conceptual increase without
any limit or term; thus the potentially infinite can be
multiplied infinitely, but in reality it is finite and limited.
On account of the indefiniteness of the limits, it is also
called the indefinite. Finally, something can be either
relatively or absolutely infinite. The former is infinite in
some aspect or particular perfection, such as duration; the
latter is infinite in every respect. Only God is actually and
absolutely infinite, as only he is infinitely perfe