eternity
[noun]
Synonyms:
- infinity, ages, endlessness, immortality, perpetuity, timelessness
- the afterlife, heaven, paradise, the hereafter, the next world

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Antonyms: finiteness
Contrasted words: ephemerality, impermanence, transience, limitedness, restrictedness
Related Idioms: forever and a day, forever and ever
Related Words: endlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, perpetuity, timelessness

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

e‧ter‧ni‧ty /ɪˈtɜːnəti, ɪˈtɜːnɪti $ -ɜːr-/ noun

1. an eternity a period of time that seems very long because you are annoyed, anxious etc:
Here she waited for what seemed like an eternity.
That week was an eternity of solitude and boredom.

2. [uncountable] the whole of time without any end:
a little animal preserved for all eternity as a fossil

3. [uncountable] the state of existence after death that some people believe continues for ever

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲