finitude means the state or characteristic of being finite; limitedness. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 77 out of 100.
Why “finitude” is a great word
FINITUDE — [Noun] The inherent condition of being bounded or limited; the quality of having an end. From Latin fīnis ("end, limit") + the noun-forming suffix -tūdō ("-itude"), via Renaissance Latin finitūdō; first recorded in English in the 1640s. Unlike "infinitude," which denotes boundless extent, or "limitlessness," which describes an abstract absence of constraints, finitude is the concrete, felt reality of having edges. It is the dwindling candle, the cooling of skin after sun, the final page of a beloved book—the gentle, implacable grammar that defines all beauty and all sorrow by the very fact of its conclusion.
Etymology
From Latin fin(is) + -itude or directly from Renaissance Latin finitūdō (“signifying a noun of state”), from fīnis (“end, limit”) + -tūdō.
noun
- The state or characteristic of being finite; limitedness.“Matter expresses the finitude of time-space; in this world of limitation a new way of knowing becomes possible, and this way is language.”