finity

The state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope.

Noun

The state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope.
- He was calm in the conviction that he could measure and calculate the universe […] He matched finity against the Infinite. - 1874, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 31, in Idolatry: A Romance:
- Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity. - 1899, Jack London, The White Silence:
- In a very non-Aristotelian fashion, Nicholas of Cusa produced a synthesis of finity and infinity. - 1987, Julius Thomas Fraser, Time, the Familiar Stranger, →ISBN, page 37:
Something which is limited in number or scope.
- If we imagined a person capable of comprehending infinity, we should merely think that he was able infinitely to add up finities. - 1837 September 2, “The Transcendalist's Dialogues: No. IX”, in The Shepherd, volume 3,...
- And this condescension of infinite Perfection to the finities—to their imperfections, contingencies, and littlenesses—is the very result of its perfection. - 1884 January 5, “Prayer and Science”, in Methodist Quarterly...

From French finité, from Old French finité, from fini (past participle of finir (“to bound”)) + -ité.