FINALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does finality mean? 

• FINALITY (noun)
  The noun FINALITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being final or definitely settled

  Familiarity information: FINALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being final or definitely settled

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

conclusiveness; decisiveness; finality

Context example:

the finality of death

Hypernyms ("finality" is a kind of...):

definiteness; determinateness (the quality of being predictable with great confidence)

Attribute:

conclusive (forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question)

inconclusive (not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question)

Derivation:

final (not to be altered or undone)

final (occurring at or forming an end or termination)

final (conclusive in a process or progression)

 Context examples 

Truly there is no such thing as finality.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Then it is as I said," Womble announced with finality.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He drove so directly to the core of the matter, divesting a question always of all superfluous details, and with such an air of finality, that I seemed to find myself struggling in deep water, with no footing under me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)