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
This subtle urgency opens our own awareness, lens-like, upon the implied human task, larger than any single calamity — that of attending to relentless change, loss, finitude.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2021
Or we may give the matter a psychological turn and say: Such is the transition from the Understanding with its finitude to Reason with its universality, to the all-seeing light within.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider
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