limited
adjective
confined within limits; restricted or circumscribed.
limitedness
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a word derived from
limited.
Example Sentences
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But Fanny knew him, knew the peculiar obstinate limitedness of him, that would nearly send her mad.
From England, My England by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
His poetry is religious without the weakness, or at any rate the limitedness, which mars so much religious verse.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
And the soul is enchained by illusion—by mistaking the effect for the cause, and by regarding the effect as the real, instead of realizing the incompleteness; the limitedness; the unsatisfying character of the changing—the external.
From Cosmic Consciousness by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
It is not his distortion of nature, as pre-Raphaelite limitedness glibly asserts, but his carelessness of her prodigious potentialities, that marks one side of his colossal accomplishment.
From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
Such apprehension, however, still has the immanent limitedness of the national spirit.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
