eternal

[ ih-tur-nl ]
/ ɪˈtɜr nl /
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adjective

without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing (opposed to temporal): eternal life.
perpetual; ceaseless; endless: eternal quarreling; eternal chatter.
enduring; immutable: eternal principles.
Metaphysics. existing outside all relations of time; not subject to change.

noun

something that is eternal.
the Eternal, God.

Origin of eternal

1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin aeternālis, equivalent to aetern(us) (see eterne) + -ālis -al1

SYNONYMS FOR eternal

1 permanent, unending. Eternal, endless, everlasting, perpetual imply lasting or going on without ceasing. That which is eternal is, by its nature, without beginning or end: God, the eternal Father. That which is endless never stops but goes on continuously as if in a circle: an endless succession of years. That which is everlasting will endure through all future time: a promise of everlasting life. Perpeptual implies continuous renewal as far into the future as one can foresee: perpetual strife between nations.
3 timeless, immortal, deathless, undying, imperishable, indestructible.
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OTHER WORDS FROM eternal

Words nearby eternal

etching ground, etd, eteocles, eteoclus, eteocretan, eternal, eternal city, eternal city, the, eternal triangle, eternalize, eterne

Words related to eternality

eternity, forever, infinity, permanence, perpetuity, perpetuation

Example sentences from the Web for eternality

  • Lavoisier took the third step by showing that the matter which enters into the constitution of the universe is an eternality.

    Communism and Christianism |William Montgomery Brown

  • Mayer took the fourth step by showing that the force which enters into the constitution of the universe is an eternality.

    Communism and Christianism |William Montgomery Brown

  • It destroys on the one hand the idea of the eternality of economic laws and limits them to particular epochs.

    Socialism |John Spargo

British Dictionary definitions for eternality

eternal
/ (ɪˈtɜːnəl) /

adjective

  1. without beginning or end; lasting for evereternal life
  2. (as noun)the eternal
(often capital) denoting or relating to that which is without beginning and end, regarded as an attribute of God
unchanged by time, esp being true or valid for all time; immutable eternal truths
seemingly unceasing; occurring again and again eternal bickering

Derived forms of eternal

eternality or eternalness, noun eternally, adverb

Word Origin for eternal

C14: from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus; related to Latin aevum age