finality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality or state of being final, conclusive, and not open to further change

   The court's ruling brought a sense of finality to the long dispute.

Borrowed from Middle French finalite, from Medieval Latin finalitas, based on Latin finalis ("of or pertaining to an end"), from finis ("end, boundary"). In English it is also transparently final + -ity: the state or quality of being final.

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