finitude
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of finitude
Example Sentences
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“I’ve seen the world and I’m tired now,” he says, but there is no returning to the secure finitude of his old home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
It’s one thing to intellectually understand the finitude of our lives and another to actually live it out.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Decay and finitude haunt Rambo’s story, including social breakdown, the limits of technology, and the loss of Earth as a habitable place.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2022
It exists by its finitude and is great in proportion to its determination.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
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