terminality
State of ending
Terminality is the quality or state of being terminal—approaching an end, especially death.
The word appears most often in medical contexts discussing fatal illness: The doctor confirmed the terminality of his condition.
It can extend to anything nearing its conclusion: the terminality of a project, a relationship, or an era.
A full stopping
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- finalityState of conclusive completion
- closureSense of emotional resolution
- completionAct of finishing
discontinuation · stoppage · finish · culmination · expiration · halt · lapse · dissolution
Cessation of life
passing · finitude · quietus · fatality · deathbed · last breath · final days · end-of-life
Coming toward something
- loomingAppearing threateningly close
- impendingSoon to occur
- nearnessState of being close
- forthcomingSoon to appear
inevitability · anticipation · foreboding · immediacy · brink · verge · onset · urgency
Line marking a limit
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- capCovering for top
- ceilingRoom's upper surface
- maximumGreatest permitted quantity
constraint · limitation · extremity · cutoff · demarcation · bound · upper limit · breaking point
cessation
A full stopping
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- finalityState of conclusive completion
- closureSense of emotional resolution
completion · discontinuation · stoppage · finish · culmination · expiration · halt · lapse · dissolution · finale
death
Cessation of life
decease · passing · finitude · quietus · fatality · deathbed · last breath · final days · end-of-life · dying process
approaching
Coming toward something
forthcoming · inevitability · anticipation · foreboding · immediacy · brink · verge · onset · urgency · premonition
boundary
Line marking a limit
maximum · constraint · limitation · extremity · cutoff · demarcation · bound · upper limit · breaking point · outer edge
terminalityimmortality
Exemption from death
eternity · perpetuity · infinity · endlessness · everlastingness
terminalitybeginning
Initial stage of something
birth · origin · commencement · inception · genesis
terminalitycontinuity
Uninterrupted progression or coherence
life · perpetuation · sustainability · survival · persistence
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