"finity" meaning in English

See finity in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: finities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} finity (countable and uncountable, plural finities)
  1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope. Tags: rare, uncountable Synonyms (state or characteristic of being limited): boundedness Translations (state or characteristic of being limited): konečno [neuter] (Czech), eindigheid (Dutch), finitude (French), Endlichkeit (German), πεπερασμένη (peperasméni) [neuter] (Greek), finitezza (Italian), 有限 (yūgen) (Japanese), skończoności [masculine] (Polish), finidade (Portuguese), konačnost [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), finidad (Spanish), finitud (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-finity-en-noun-LXnPPPnb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 88 12 Disambiguation of 'state or characteristic of being limited': 84 16 Disambiguation of 'state or characteristic of being limited': 84 16
  2. (countable) Something which is limited in number or scope. Tags: countable, rare
    Sense id: en-finity-en-noun-hR3wJ9o~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: finitude, finiteness, limitedness, enclosedness, finity

Inflected forms

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