finalities

Points of conclusion

Finalities is the plural of finality, which refers to the quality of being final or conclusive—the sense that something is settled and cannot be changed.

A court ruling has finality; a casual suggestion does not.

The word often appears in contexts involving endings or irreversible decisions: the finalities of death, the finalities of contractual agreements.

Multiple finalities might describe several conclusive outcomes or the various aspects that make something feel complete and closed.

decisiveness

resolve

Firmness of purpose

resoluteness · steadfastness · assertiveness · definitiveness · conclusiveness · irrevocability · absoluteness · certainty · permanence · irreversibility

closure

resolution

Formal decision or determination

settlement · ending · finishing · winding-up · shutdown · discontinuance · adjournment · liquidation · wrap-up · close

completion

accomplishment

Successful completion of aim

consummation · realization · actualization · achievement · attainment · perfection · execution · implementation · materialization · effectuation

judgment

verdict

Official court decision

decision · outcome · conclusion · decree · pronouncement · adjudication · settlement · arbitration · resolution

inevitability

fate

Predetermined course of events

  • destinyPredetermined course of events
  • doomUnavoidable grim fate
  • deathCessation of life

mortality · entropy · inescapability · predestination · certainty · unavoidability · inexorability · irreversibility · determinism · fatalism

Opposites
temporal position

finalitiesbeginnings

Initial stages of something

starts · commencements · origins · inceptions · outsets

conclusiveness

finalitiescontinuities

Uninterrupted sequences or states

continuations · open-endedness · inconclusiveness · uncertainties · ambiguities

permanence

finalitiesimpermanences

States of being temporary

temporariness · transiences · tentativeness · preliminaries · uncertainties

Family

final, finally, finale, finalize, finalized, finality, finalist, finalizing, semifinals

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G