[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being finite; the condition of being limited in space, time, capacity, etc.
1601. J. Deacon & J. Walker, Spirits & Divels, 89. The localitie of spirits and diuels doth not simply depend vpon a bodie which after it owne manner, I meane circumscriptiuely and sensibly is (no doubt) in a place: but it ariseth properly, from the finitenesse, and dimensiuenesse of the angelicall nature it selfe.
1708. Berkeley, Commonpl. Bk., Wks. 1871, IV. 490. Finiteness of our minds no excuse for the geometers.
1886. Proctor, Fam. Sc. Stud., 5–6. No theory of the finiteness of space can possibly be more utterly inconceivable than the idea of infinite space itself.
