finite

If you don’t have an image of your self, as I’m fairly sure cats don’t, then you won’t think of yourself as a mortal, finite being.

A dark night sky, he reasoned, suggested a finite cosmos where the stars eventually peter out.

It is difficult for any one actor to optimize for well-being and alignment with society’s values when other players are still competing for finite resources and power.

The breadth and depth of extraordinary lives—most everybody’s full life—at first seems overwhelming but then must be stewed down into a list of finite achievements, necessary but necessarily shallow.