I remember hearing someone say "almost infinite" on one of the science-esque youtube channels. I can't remember which video exactly, but if I do, I'll include it for reference.
As someone who hasn't studied very much math, "almost infinite" sounds like nonsense. Either something ends or it doesn't, there really isn't a spectrum of unending-ness. Since there are different sized infinities, I knows there's more to the story than what I understand, so I was wondering if there's some context where it makes sense to say that something was almost infinite.
edit: It may have been on the "smarter every day" channel.
Best Answer
Based on the comments suggesting that this was used to describe the number of species of a certain family of insects, or something similar, I would say that this is a perfectly correct prosaic use of the term infinite.
This misuse of the word "infinite" alludes to the fact that there are many many many insects in that family. Much more than we can imagine. This is very similar to how we say that solar power is unlimited power, and that the internet has an infinite supply of pictures of cats.
But note that this is indeed not a mathematical context. In a mathematical context something is finite or infinite, but not both. Especially since the modern definition of infinite is "not finite".