finitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the state or quality of being finite, bounded, or limited

   The proof establishes the finitude of every sequence generated by the procedure.

2. 2
   noun

   in philosophy, the condition of human life as limited by time, knowledge, power, and mortality

   The philosopher treated mortality as the clearest expression of human finitude.

Formed from finite + -tude, or borrowed from Renaissance Latin finitudo, a noun of state based on Latin finitus ("bounded, limited"), from finis ("end, boundary"). Philosophical use extends measurable limitation to the bounded condition of human existence.

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