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finity

Rhymes with -ɪnɪti

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

noun finities

  1. rare, uncountable 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.

    Similar: boundedness

  2. countable, rare 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.

Similar: finitude, finiteness, limitedness, enclosedness, finity · Opposite: infinity, unlimitedness, endlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness

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noun state or characteristic of being limited

Españolfinidad, finitud
한국어유한 yuhan
日本語有限 yūgen
Portuguêsfinidade
Françaisfinitude
DeutschEndlichkeit
Italianofinitezza
Ελληνικάπεπερασμένη peperasméni

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@misc{finity_2026,
  title = {finity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/finity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}