Skillion
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A room built against the back of another building, having a separate roof.
- 2 Any indefinitely large number. excessive, slang
"In fact, human experience requires not just one society but a nest of such societies, ordered in special ways. For instance, there need to be societies drawing out all the trains of thought that come together in a single judgment, and there need to be skillions of societies (a skillion is a very large number) tracing causal inputs from the body, the atmosphere, gravitation, human culture, the New York Times, and whatever else provides the context for a single thought."
Example
More examples"In fact, human experience requires not just one society but a nest of such societies, ordered in special ways. For instance, there need to be societies drawing out all the trains of thought that come together in a single judgment, and there need to be skillions of societies (a skillion is a very large number) tracing causal inputs from the body, the atmosphere, gravitation, human culture, the New York Times, and whatever else provides the context for a single thought."
Etymology
From dialect skilling, from Middle English skyling.
See + -illion.
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