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Borrowed from Middle French finalité. equivalent to final +‎ -ity.

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finality (countable and uncountable, plural finalities)

  1. 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.
    • 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 409:
      By way of contrast there is an air of finality about the closure of the Welsh Highland Railway.

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  1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 4.86, page 145.