finitude

[ fin-i-tood, -tyood, fahy-ni- ]

noun

1. a finite state or quality.

Word History and Origins

Origin of finitude¹

First recorded in 1635–45; fini(te) + -tude

Example Sentences

Isolation is finitude and limitation, community is freedom and infinity.

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These are the ideas common to the connection between change, becoming and perishing, and Non-Being, finitude and imperfection.

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In the starry infinitude her finitude was lost, absorbed, as a grain of sand wind-blown a few yards across an illimitable desert.

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Her face which can alone sow finitude's Fell desolation with enverdured dreams And fill the ways of the world again with hope?

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What I love in Greece and in England is contentment in finitude, fair outward ways, manly perfection and simplicity.

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