eternal
adjEtymology
From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus (“eternal”), from aevum (“age”). Displaced native Old English ēċe.
- derived from aeternālis
- derived from eternal
- inherited from eternal
Definitions
Lasting forever
Lasting forever; unending.
- But here again it is another question, quite different from our having an idea of eternity, to know whether there were any real being, whose duration has been eternal.
- Thy smoking altar shall be fat with food / Of incense and the grateful steam of blood; / Burnt-offerings morn and evening shall be thine, / And fires eternal in thy temple shine.
Existing outside time
Existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly.
Constant
Constant; perpetual; ceaseless; ever-present.
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Exceedingly great or bad
Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.
- some eternal villain
One who lives forever
One who lives forever; an immortal.
- Yes, I want that raw power that is only offered to the eternals or creators
The neighborhood
- synonymageful
- synonymagelong
- synonymamaranthine
- synonymcelestial
- synonymendless
- synonymenduring
- synonymeternal
- synonymeterne
- synonymeverduring
- synonymevergreen
- synonymeverlasting
- synonymeviternal
- antonymephemeral
- antonymfleeting
- antonymimpermanent
- antonymmortal
- antonymmomentary
- antonymtemporary
- antonymtransient
- antonymunperpetual
- antonymunperpetuated
- neighborboundless
- neighborceaseless
- neighborcontinual
- neighborincessant
- neighborinfinite
- neighborinterminable
- neighborlimitless
- neighborunceasing
- neighborunlimited
- neighboreternalize
- neighboreternity
- neighborcontinuous
Derived
coeternal, crater of eternal darkness, eternal black hole, eternalism, eternalist, eternality, eternalize, eternal life, eternally, eternal marriage, eternalness, eternal now, eternal recurrence, eternal rest, eternal return, Eternal September, eternal sin, eternal sleep, eternal triangle, hope springs eternal, hope springs eternal in the human breast, life eternal, noneternal, on eternal patrol, peak of eternal light, supereternal, uneternal
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at eternal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at eternal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at eternal
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA