Finality
[faɪ'nælɪtɪ] or [faɪ'næləti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being final or definitely settled; 'the finality of death'.
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Definition
(n.) The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.
(n.) The relation of end or purpose to its means.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Final settlement, final arrangement.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FINAL]
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Examples
- For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- How repulsive her completeness and her finality was! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There is no finality in adaptation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then he would have had her finally and for ever; there would be such a perfect voluptuous finality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Which Mr Boffin repeated with a highly satisfied air of completeness and finality. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is not to be supposed, however, that the Edison tube system had then reached a finality of perfection in the eyes of its inventor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At the same time he was finely and acutely aware of Mademoiselle's neat, brittle finality of form. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No one, least of all Mr. Wallas, would claim anything like finality for the essay. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The pretension to finality falls away. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I want the finality of love. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This finality of Gudrun's, this dispatching of people and things in a sentence, it was all such a lie. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And the finality released her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The knowledge of this reached a finality, a finishing in her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There must be a conclusion, there must be finality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They are not ends in the sense of finalities to which everything must be bent and sacrificed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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