What's the difference between finitude and infinitude?
Finitude
Definition:
(n.) Limitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thinking of the end is embedded in a complexity of psychosocial correlates: this is shown to be true for two subgroups of the Bonn Longitudinal Study of Aging, who are discriminated by their contrasting manner of facing finitude.
(2) A long tradition in philosophy and religion associates the meaning of life with the acknowledgement of its finitude and mortality and with the acceptance of death.
(3) Three hypotheses on changes in the time perspective of elderly people and their behavioral consequences are discussed: firstly, Kuhlen's hypothesis of an increasing sensitivity for the passing of time with increasing age, secondly that of a de-differentiation of future time perspective in old age, and finally the thesis that only normative-prescriptive approaches are appropriate in the study of coping with finitude.
(4) Instead of the usual interpretation, members are encouraged to confront the paradoxes in their lives, their humanness, and especially their finitude.
(5) Christian faith refuses to think in terms of scarcity (God has not created a world in which there is not enough for everyone to survive), but insists on finitude (creation does have inherent limits): there is enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed.
(6) Can we ignore the finitude of our medical resources?
(7) Consciousness of the finitude of human life is found to occur in childhood as well as in age and adulthood, but is turning up more intensively in subjects being terminally ill, and is aroused -- as an irritation to be repressed -- in persons who regularly contact patients confronted by death.
(8) Although social scientists have suggested that feelings about life and death may be related, for the most part, theories of social gerontology have developed independently of conceptions of death and finitude.
Infinitude
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being infinite, or without limits; infiniteness.
(1) Any additional specification (increased resolution--more compartments) of the distribution results in the existence of an infinitude of possible distributions characterized by indistinguishable sets of retention values.