eternity

[e·ter·ni·ty]

Eternity means "forever," like living for all eternity. Or it can mean something that seems like it will go on for forever, like waiting an eternity for your sister to get out of the bathroom.

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Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

Noun
a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife

Noun
time without end

Noun
a seemingly endless time interval (waiting)


n.
Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

n.
Condition which begins at death; immortality.


Eternity

E*ter"ni*ty , n.; pl. Eternities . [F. '82ternit'82, L. aeternitas, fr. aeternus. See Etern.] 1. Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity.
2. Condition which begins at death; immortality.
Thou know'st 't is common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.

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Usage Examples

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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