finality
/faɪˈnælɪti/
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archaic/fɪ-/
finality noun: the state of being final; the condition from which no further changes occur.
Noun
finality (countable and uncountable, plural finalities)
- 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.
- By way of contrast there is an air of finality about the closure of the Welsh Highland Railway.1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 409
finality meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
finality in Tamil
- இறுதி, இறுதிமை
finality in Urdu
- انجام
finality in Malayalam
- decisiveness, conclusiveness, decision
- തീർപ്പ്, നിർണ്ണയം, തീർച്ച, അവസാനതീർപ്പ്, നിസ്സംശയാവസ്ഥ, അഖണ്ഡ്യത
finality in Kannada
- ಕಡೆಯ ತೀರ್ಮಾನ, ನಿರ್ಣಾಯಕತೆ, ಅಂತಿಮವಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ
Antonyms of finality
Forms of finality
| plural | finalities |
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Origin of finality
Borrowed from Middle French finalité. equivalent to final + -ity.
Words formed from finality
Words that rhyme with finality
- modality
- plurality
- locality
- personality
- reality
- fatality
- morality
- bestiality
- potentiality
- sexuality
- duality
- formality
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- instrumentality
- irrationality
- tonality
- asexuality
- banality
- brutality
- centrality
- externality
- generality
- hospitality
- normality
- totality
- causality
- confidentiality
- conventionality
- cordiality
- dimensionality
- eventuality
- extraterritoriality
- fantasticality
- homosexuality
- immorality
- legality
- lethality
- mentality
- notionality
- sensuality
- surreality
- temporality
- androsexuality
- chirality
- congeniality
- dentality
- diapersexuality
- fursonality
- geniality
- grammaticality
- graysexuality
- gynesexuality
- gynosexuality
- institutionality
- joviality
- magnality
- mysticality
- omnipotentiality
- speciality
- sphericality
- topicality
Questions about finality
- What does finality mean?
- Finality means the state of being final; the condition from which no further changes occur.
- What is finality in Tamil?
- Finality in Tamil is இறுதி, இறுதிமை. See Finality meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is finality?
- Finality is a noun.
- How do you pronounce finality?
- Finality is pronounced /faɪˈnælɪti/.
- What is the plural of finality?
- The plural of finality is finalities.
Words near finality in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: finality (page history and authors); finality (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); finality (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); finality (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); finality (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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