eternity

eter·nity (ē tʉr′nə tē, i-)

noun pl. -·ties

the quality, state, or fact of being eternal; eternal existence or duration; continuance without end
infinite time; time without beginning or end
a long period of time that seems endless an eternity of waiting
the endless time after death

Etymology: ME eternite < OFr eternité < L aeternitas

Time without end
endlessness, forever, endless duration, infinite duration, timelessness, everlastingness, perpetuity, world without end, saecula saeculorum (Latin), the future, infinity, all eternity, forever and a day, eon, age; see also immortality 1.
Antonyms moment, instant, second.
Life after death
other world, everlastingness, afterlife; see immortality 2.

Converse of object

inhabit: They rebelled against the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity and whose name is holy.
spend: Where are you going to spend eternity - in heaven or in hell?
seem: The lecture dragged on for what seemed an eternity.
lose: He wants to save us from a lost eternity.
represent: When they wish to represent eternity, they represent it by a serpent with its tail in its mouth.
take: Also the moral boosting dawn seemed to take an eternity to arrive.

Adjective modifier

christless: How many days have there been, when you've failed to have their Christless eternity on your heart?
timeless: For Aquinas also timeless eternity constituted part of the ' grammar ' of talking about God.
lost: It was easy to go to a lost eternity.
divine: The challenge is to say clearly what divine timeless eternity is like.
vast: But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
past: From the past eternity He was the Son of God long before He ever became the Son of Mary.

Modifies a noun

Noun used with modifier

diamond: Who else do you know with a pink diamond eternity ring?
spending: Some believed that a baby dying in Original Sin risked the possibility of spending eternity in limbo.

Preposition: in

hell: I thought I might spend eternity in hell, left behind.
heaven: The good news is of an assured eternity in heaven beyond death for those who trust in Christ.

Preposition: of

bliss: He lets us know clearly how Paul began the voyage to an eternity of bliss.
universe: There is a difference between believing in a beginning of the universe or the eternity of the universe that probably cannot be reconciled.

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