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- DictionaryE·ter·ni·ty/əˈtərnədē/
noun
- 1. infinite or unending time: "their love was sealed for eternity" Similar everall timeperpetuity
- ▪ a state to which time has no application; timelessness: "the encounter between time and eternity"
- ▪ endless life after death: "immortal souls destined for eternity" Similar the afterlifeeverlasting lifelife after deaththe life to comethe life hereafterthe hereafterthe world hereafterthe afterworldthe next worldthe beyondheavenparadisenirvanaimmortalityOpposite limbohell
- ▪ used euphemistically to refer to death: "he could have crashed the car and taken them both to eternity"
- ▪ a period of time that seems very long, especially on account of being tedious or annoying: "a silence that lasted an eternity" Similar a long timean ageages (and ages)a timea lifetimehoursdaysmonthsyearseonshours/days/months on enda month of Sundaysthe duration(seemingly) foreverinformal:yonksdonkey's yearsOpposite instant
Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French eternite, from Latin aeternitas, from aeternus ‘without beginning or end’ (see eternal).
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