finiteness
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- noun
- /ˈfɪnɪtnəs/
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finitud
- The environmentalist emphasized the finiteness of natural resources during the seminar.
One, do you, have you pondered your immortality, the finiteness of it?
- One, do you, have you pondered your immortality, the finiteness of it?
- So Speaking of the finiteness of our existence on on in this world.
Examples
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As we age, we become increasingly aware of the finiteness of our time on Earth.
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What disturbed the critics most was the notion, which they believed was too prevalent in textbooks, that nearly all of mankind's current economic activities could be represented by exponential growth and that there existed physical limits imposed by the finiteness of the world's natural resources and ecological systems.
Academic text (1992) -
This reality of our finiteness is an incredibly important truth.
Blog text (21) -
The age of levelling allows us to actually see the finiteness of temporary things.
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The feeling that comes from looking into the abyss helps us comprehend answers to the questions of life and death; the emotional response to having caught a glimpse of infinity is in itself also an awareness of one's own finiteness.
Academic text (2011) -
He presents it as an expression of original sin to think our society or our civilization has transcended mankind's finiteness or particularity.
Blog text (27) -
Even the forecasts about the end of the world, which are found in several major religious traditions, do not reveal any awareness of the finiteness of the earth as an island in space sustaining a limited quantity of life and vulnerable to ecological disaster.
Academic text (1992) -
Nobility is a constant reminder both of the objective and hierarchical character of value, but also of the transitoriness and finiteness of every merely human rank and claim.
Academic text (2001) -
There may be other, perhaps more pragmatic, reasons that could lead one to refrain from a literal application of biblical images to the contemporary scene, but a respect for the peculiarity of religious language and an awareness of human finiteness and sinfulness will most certainly discourage one from moving so easily from the faith and history of ancient Israel or of the early Christian churches to an assessment of the present political dilemma and how it is to be resolved.
Academic text (1995) -
The team discussed the finiteness of the project budget and its impact on their plans.
Synonyms
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A rule that controls how much or how many of something there can be
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The fact that something has limits or an end
The state of having limits or an end
A condition of being limited in size or amount
A state when there is only a small amount or range of something
Antonyms
How Limited
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word finiteness comes from the Latin root finis, which means 'end'. Like the words finish and final, it reminds us that something has a limit, so finiteness means having limits and not going on forever.