finity

noun

Etymology

From French finité, from Old French finité, from fini (past participle of finir (“to bound”)) + -ité.

  1. derived from finité
  2. borrowed from finité

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope.

    • He was calm in the conviction that he could measure and calculate the universe […] He matched finity against the Infinite.
    • Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity.
    • In a very non-Aristotelian fashion, Nicholas of Cusa produced a synthesis of finity and infinity.
  2. Something which is limited in number or scope.

    • If we imagined a person capable of comprehending infinity, we should merely think that he was able infinitely to add up finities.
    • And this condescension of infinite Perfection to the finities—to their imperfections, contingencies, and littlenesses—is the very result of its perfection.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for finity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA