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Definition: Finiteness |
FinitenessNoun1. The quality of being finite. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "finiteness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references) |
Synonyms: FinitenessSynonyms: boundedness (n), finitude (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: infiniteness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Smallness | Finiteness, finite quantity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "Finiteness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Finiteness" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "finiteness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ограниченост (limitation, narrow mindedness, narrowness, provincialism, tunnel vision). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 有尽. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | koneènost (finality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | äärellisyys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Endlichkeiten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επερασμένος (finite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | befejezettség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | initenessfay ограниченность (closed mind, exclusiveness, limitedness, narrow mindedness, narrow-mindedness, narrowness). (various references) ograničenost (scantiness, sheepishness). (various references) sonu olma. (various references) tính có hạn cái có hạn, sự có hạn. (various references) meidroldeb. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "finiteness": finitenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "finiteness": definiteness, indefiniteness, infiniteness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "finiteness": definitenesses, indefinitenesses, infinitenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "finiteness" (pronounced 'Fi"nite*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-i-n-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: einsteins. | |
-2 letters: einstein, fineness, finniest, nineties, sienites, tennises, tininess. | |
-3 letters: finesse, finises, finites, fitness, infests, intense, intines, nifties, sennets, sennits, sestine, sienite, tennies. | |
-4 letters: feints, feists, finest, finite, infest, insets, insist, intine, niseis, seines, seisin, seniti, sennet, sennit, steins, tennis, tenses. | |
-5 letters: feint, feist, fesse, fetes, fines, finis, fists, inset, intis, issei, neifs, neist, nenes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-i-n-n-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: intensifies. | |
+2 letters: definiteness, finitenesses, flintinesses, infiniteness, intensifiers. | |
+3 letters: fittingnesses. | |
+4 letters: definitenesses, definitiveness, faintishnesses, indefiniteness, infectiousness, infinitenesses, reinfestations. | |
+5 letters: indifferentisms, indifferentists, ineffectiveness, informativeness, superinfections. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 6E 69 74 65 6E 65 73 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. -. .. - . -. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i n i t e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006E 0069 0074 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40758075867180718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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