finality

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French finalité. equivalent to final +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /faɪˈnælɪti/, /faɪˈnæləti/, (now rare) /fɪ-/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ælɪti

Noun

finality (countable and uncountable, plural finalities)

  1. The state of being final; the condition from which no further changes occur.
    The finality of my father's death suddenly hit me: there would be no more bedtime stories, no more games of catch in the back yard.
    • 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 409:
      By way of contrast there is an air of finality about the closure of the Welsh Highland Railway.

Antonyms

Derived terms

Translations

References
  • “finality”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎, volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 4.86, page 145.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.