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eternity

noun
/ɪˈtɜːnɪti/UK/əˈtɜɹnəti/US

Etymology

From Middle English eternyte, from Old French eternité, from Latin aeternitās. Displaced native Old English ēcnes.

  1. derived from aeternitās
  2. derived from eternité
  3. inherited from eternyte

Definitions

  1. Existence without end, infinite time.

    • Eternity has generally been considered as divisible into two parts; which have been termed, eternity a parte ante, and eternity a parte post: that is, in plain English, that eternity which is past, and that eternity which is to come.
    • This theory regards creation as an act of God in eternity past.

  2. Existence outside of time.

  3. A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.

    • Every niche was filled by a funeral urn, and by marble shapes that bent down in a pale eternity of sorrow.
    • No limit / Not none that I can see / No limit / Not one, not one / Not one for you or me / No limit / Well, it can go until eternity, yeah / No limits to our love, girl
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The remainder of time that elapses after death.

    2. A comparatively long time.

      • It's been an eternity since we last saw each other.
      • I had to wait in the station for ten days - an eternity.

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Derived

coeternity, eternitarian, eternity collar, eternity future, eternity past, eternity plant, eternity ring, for all of eternity, noneternity, posteternity, preeternity, supereternity

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at eternity. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at eternity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at eternity

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