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eternity Definition

eter·nity (ē tʉrnə tē, i-)

noun pl. -·ties

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

Etymology: ME eternite < OFr eternité < L aeternitas

eternity Synonyms

eternity

n.

  1. 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.

  2. Life after death

    other world, everlastingness, afterlife; see immortality 2.

eternity Usage Examples

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

  • ring: Who else do you know with a pink diamond eternity ring?
  • past: God, in eternity past, chose us to believe in the truth ( 2 Thess.

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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