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The commune forms under the name House of Ubuntu, a Nguni Bantu term designating the universal boundedness of humanity, and succinctly names its shared goals as the preservation and self-care of Black people.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2021

We now discuss the relationship between boundedness and convergence.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

The boundedness of the format means that movie stars like Matthew McConaughey, Felicity Huffman, and Jessica Lange can be drawn into starring roles without being tied to a years-long contract.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2015

According to the psychologist John Cacioppo, who coined the term with his colleague Gary Berntson, psychic and physiological boundedness so characterize human life that the “self” can be understood only as a relational phenomenon.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2014

This boundedness would, only in a more refined way, be just as fatal to your character as would sheer sensuality without love.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno