Meanings
plural finitudes
- countableformaluncountablehuman sciencesThe state or characteristic of being finite; limitedness.
A one-car life is one of finitude and limitations.
2025 January 30, Zachary Przystup, “Is 2 cars too many? Lamenting life in the fast lane.”, in The Christian Science Monitor2 more examples
Matter expresses the finitude of time-space; in this world of limitation a new way of knowing becomes possible, and this way is language.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 15It is our finitude and our vulnerability that keeps us open to one another and to the transcendent.
2026 July 25, Carmody Grey, “AI’s quest for morality”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2Synonyms: finiteness, finity, limitedness, boundedness, enclosedness, finiteness, finity, limitedness · Antonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, infinity, limitlessness, unlimitedness, boundlessness, endlessness, infiniteness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state or characteristic of being finite; limitedness.
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Origin
- Renaissance Latinfinitūdō“signifying a noun of state”
- Englishfinitude
From Latin fin(is) + -itude or directly from Renaissance Latin finitūdō (“signifying a noun of state”), from fīnis (“end, limit”) + -tūdō.
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