finitude
nounEtymology From Latin fin(is) + -itude or directly from Renaissance Latin finitūdō (“signifying a noun of state”), from fīnis (“end, limit”) + -tūdō.
1
The state or characteristic of being finite; limitedness.
- Matter expresses the finitude of time-space; in this world of limitation a new way of knowing becomes possible, and this way is language.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 15:
- A one-car life is one of finitude and limitations.2025 January 30, Zachary Przystup, “Is 2 cars too many? Lamenting life in the fast lane.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- Synonyms
- finiteness, finity, limitedness
- Antonyms
- infiniteness, infinitude, infinity, limitlessness, unlimitedness