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finitude

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

noun

  1. a finite state or quality.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of finitude1

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

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It’s one thing to intellectually understand the finitude of our lives and another to actually live it out.

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The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were finitude, infinitude, unfitted and unidentified.

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But, as the artist reminds us, life’s finitude is precisely what makes it meaningful — making it a little bit easier to acknowledge, and even accept, the precariousness in all of our lives.

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“I guess the type I like is the one working with classic questions about our finitude and limitations as humans.”

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Where “G.O.Y.K.” imagines a way around the finitude of the body, “Poog” hopes that one might find a way to live within it.

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