finiteness
State of ending
Finiteness is the quality of having limits or bounds.
In grammar, finiteness distinguishes verb forms that are marked for tense and person from those that aren't—runs and ran are finite, while running and to run are nonfinite.
More generally, finiteness suggests limitation in scope, duration, or extent: the finiteness of human life, the finiteness of natural resources.
Line marking a limit
- limitMaximum allowed extent
- edgeBoundary or sharpness
- borderOuter edge or limit
- confinesEnclosed boundaries or limits
perimeter · threshold · margin · horizon · circumscription · demarcation · restriction · constraint
Brevity of existence
- impermanenceQuality of not lasting
- ephemeralityCondition of being brief
- brevityShortness of expression
- fleetingnessQuality of passing quickly
temporariness · mortality · perishability · expiration · ending · cessation · termination · lifespan
Able to be measured
- countableAble to be tallied
- calculableAble to be computed
- determinateHaving exact limits
- boundedConfined within limits
discrete · enumerable · computable · dimensions · magnitude · parameters · metrics · scale
State of eventual death
- limitationBound on extent
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- determinacyState of being settled
- closureSense of emotional resolution
finality · completeness · boundedness · existential · Heidegger
Size of a set
- countableAble to be tallied
- uncountableNot able to enumerate
- CantorSet theory founder
- alephHebrew alphabet's beginning
boundary
Line marking a limit
confines · perimeter · threshold · margin · horizon · circumscription · demarcation · restriction · constraint · terminus
transience
Brevity of existence
- impermanenceQuality of not lasting
- ephemeralityCondition of being brief
- brevityShortness of expression
fleetingness · temporariness · mortality · perishability · expiration · ending · cessation · termination · lifespan · duration
quantifiable
Able to be measured
- countableAble to be tallied
- calculableAble to be computed
- determinateHaving exact limits
bounded · discrete · enumerable · computable · dimensions · magnitude · parameters · metrics · scale
mortality
State of eventual death
- limitationBound on extent
- contingencyUncertain possible event
- determinacyState of being settled
closure · finality · completeness · boundedness · existential · Heidegger
cardinality
Size of a set
- countableAble to be tallied
- uncountableNot able to enumerate
- CantorSet theory founder
- discoursediscussion, discourse, text analysis, dialogue, cohesion
- physical propertiessolid, texture, weight, mass, surface
- grammardeclension, pronouns, adjectives, conjugation, nouns
- math logicaxioms, proofs, theorems, set theory, completeness
- math propertiescommutativity, reflexivity, transitivity, symmetry, closure
finitenessinfiniteness
Unbounded extent
infinity · boundlessness · limitlessness · unboundedness · infinitude
finitenesseternity
Boundless temporal existence
endlessness · perpetuity · everlastingness · timelessness · immortality