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Definition of Finitude
1. Noun. The quality of being finite.
Generic synonyms: Quality
Derivative terms: Bounded, Finite
Antonyms: Infiniteness
Definition of Finitude
1. n. Limitation.
Definition of Finitude
1. Noun. Limitation, finiteness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Finitude
1. the state of being finite [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finitude
Literary usage of Finitude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hegel's Logic: A Book on the Genesis of the Categories of the Mind. A by William Torrey Harris (1890)
"finitude. ON arriving at the idea of dependence upon external influence, we have
come to the category of finitude. A somewhat that is not a true self, ..."
2. The Discourse on the All-Embracing Net of Views: The Brahmajala Sutta and by Bodhi, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Gautama Buddha (1992)
"Or else: just as, in the case of the third doctrine, both the finitude and infinity
of one and the same world are included by way of a distinction in ..."
3. The Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics by John Bernhard Stallo (1884)
"THE THEORY OF THE ABSOLUTE finitude OF THE WORLD AND OF SPACE. ... It is readily
seen that the assertion of the absolute finitude ..."
4. The Meaning of God in Human Experience: A Philosophic Study of Religion by William Ernest Hocking (1912)
"These are, to speak most hopefully, prospective ideas; and do but serve to show
what finitude is implied in the achieved idea. ..."
5. A Critical History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation by Albrecht Ritschl (1872)
"In harmony with the doctrine of the finitude of sin and with the subjective
standard of merit, is the doctrine also of the finitude of the merit of Christ. ..."
6. The Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell (1903)
"The following three propositions, which directly contradict the previous three,
must be always true, if the philosopher's axiom of finitude is to be ..."
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