Limitys

Limitys is a Finnish noun that denotes limitation, restriction, or a boundary placed on rights, obligations, actions, resources, or processes. In formal Finnish, limitys conveys the idea of a constraint or cap that shapes how something can be used or pursued. It is commonly found in legal, administrative, policy, and economic language.

In legal and regulatory contexts, limitys often appears in phrases describing the scope or duration of obligations, such as limitation of liability or time-related limits on claims. In policy and environmental discourse, it can refer to ceilings or caps on emissions, resource extraction, subsidies, or service coverage. In business and budgeting, limitys helps express constraints on expenditures, permissions, or operational activities.

The term tends to emphasize the social or institutional nature of a boundary, rather than a precise numerical threshold alone. It is frequently used alongside related concepts like rajoitus (restriction) and rajoittaminen (restricting), or contrasted with mathematical terms such as raja-arvo (limit in a mathematical sense). While limitys is broad and formal, it is less commonly used in everyday language than more specific terms describing particular kinds of limits or restrictions.

See also: rajoitus; rajoittaminen; raja-arvo.