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eternalism

noun

Etymology

From eternal + -ism.

  1. derived from aeternus — “eternal”
  2. derived from aeternālis
  3. derived from eternal
  4. inherited from eternal
  5. suffixed as eternalism — “eternal + ism”

Definitions

  1. The view that time resembles space and thus past and future events are in some sense…

    The view that time resembles space and thus past and future events are in some sense coexistent.

  2. The view that matter is uncreated and has existed, and will exist, eternally.

    • The first of these is eternalism, which holds that matter, energy, and intelligence—the components of the universe—are uncreated, indestructible, eternal, and forever fixed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eternalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA