finitude

[ fin-i-tood, -tyood, fahy-ni- ]

/ ˈfɪn ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud, ˈfaɪ nɪ- /

a finite state or quality.

Origin of finitude

First recorded in 1635–45; fini(te) + -tude

He is in quite the same punishment as Orion or even Sisyphus, the penalty of all finitude is upon him.

Homer's Odyssey |Denton J. Snider
In the starry infinitude her finitude was lost, absorbed, as a grain of sand wind-blown a few yards across an illimitable desert.

Pharais and The Mountain Lovers |Fiona Macleod
That evil is negative, or privative, and consists in the finitude of the creature, is the result of the discussion.

Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding |John Dewey
His faith in the good does not fail, but it is the faith of one who confesses to ignorance, and links himself to his finitude.

Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher |Henry Jones

What I love in Greece and in England is contentment in finitude, fair outward ways, manly perfection and simplicity.

Soliloquies in England |George Santayana