Definitely vs Finity - What's the difference?
definitely | finity |
Without question and beyond doubt.
In a definite manner; decisively.
* Nikolai Gogol, The Nose (in translation)
(rare, uncountable) The state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope.
* 1874 , , Idolatry: A Romance , ch. 31:
* 1899 , , "The White Silence":
* 1987 , , Time, the Familiar Stranger , ISBN 9780870235764,
* 2006 , Rolf A. F. Witzsche, Universal Divine Science: Spiritual Pedagogicals , ISBN 9781897046944,
(rare, countable) Something which is limited in number or scope.
* 1734 , , "A Brief Scheme of Ontology" in Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects (6th edition, 1794),
* 1837 Sep. 2, "The Transcendalist's Dialogues: No. IX," The Shepherd , vol. 3, no. 10,
* 1884 Jan., "Prayer and Science," Methodist Quarterly Review , 4th series, vol. 66,
As an adverb definitely
is without question and beyond doubt.As a noun finity is
(rare|uncountable) the state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope.definitely
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- The mother definitely has love for her child.
- And the Nose definitely turned away.
finity
English
Noun
(finities)- He was calm in the conviction that he could measure and calculate the universe. . . . He matched finity against the Infinite.
- Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity .
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- In a very non-Aristotelian fashion, Nicholas of Cusa produced a synthesis of finity and infinity.
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- We . . . labor to find our identity in the infinite in spite of our encumberment in finity .
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- Disagreement in substance or essence . . . may be called Disproportion, as there is a disproportion between finities and infinities, i.e. there is no proportion between them.
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- If we imagined a person capable of comprehending infinity, we should merely think that he was able infinitely to add up finities .
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- And this condescension of infinite Perfection to the finities —to their imperfections, contingencies, and littlenesses—is the very result of its perfection.
