immortality

[ im-awr-tal-i-tee ]

/ ˌɪm ɔrˈtæl ɪ ti /

immortal condition or quality; unending life.

enduring fame.

Origin of immortality

1300–50; Middle English immortalite < Latin immortālitās. See immortal, -ity

Did the screenwriters know they were dancing with immortality when they wrote these lines?

What Was Bogey Thinking When He Said ‘Here’s Looking At You, Kid’? |Lewis Beale |September 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But, no matter how the Court decides, McCutcheon has already secured a certain share of immortality.

Meet Shaun McCutcheon, the Republican Activist Trying to Make History at the Supreme Court |Ben Jacobs |October 8, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Despite their differences, all these men seem to want the kind of immortality that comes from infamy.

The Army Life, Mundane and Hideously Violent, by Turns |Brian Van Reet |August 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Adam Gollner, author of The Book of Immortality, profiles five billionaires pouring money into longevity research.

The Immortality Financiers: The Billionaires Who Want to Live Forever |Adam Leith Gollner |August 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Deng quickly decked the assailant, achieving her own bit of YouTube immortality.

What Would the New York Post Say About Rupert Murdoch’s Divorce? |David Freedlander |June 13, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Jimmie thought for sure he must be dead; he lay wondering, was this immortality?

Jimmie Higgins |Upton Sinclair
For him the struggle of life resolves itself into a romantic game, with immortality as its conclusion.

Personality in Literature |Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
It was like the Hesperides of Greek mythology, the western islands where grew the golden apples of immortality.

The Book of Hallowe'en |Ruth Edna Kelley
What the dogma of immortality was to me I have already described, and with regard to God I was no better.

The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford |Mark Rutherford
Pictures are everywhere presented which reproduced on canvass would insure the immortality of any artist.

The Beauties of the State of Washington |Harry F. Giles