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eternity

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e·ter·ni·ty  (-tûrn-t)
n. pl. e·ter·ni·ties
1. Time without beginning or end; infinite time.
2. The state or quality of being eternal.
3.
a. The timeless state following death.
b. The afterlife; immortality.
4. A very long or seemingly endless time: waited in the dentist's office for an eternity.

[Middle English eternite, from Old French, from Latin aeternits, from aeternus, eternal; see eternal.]

eternity
Noun
pl -ties
1. endless or infinite time
2. a seemingly endless period of time: it seemed an eternity before he could feel his heart beating again
3. the timeless existence after death
4. the state of being eternal
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.eternityeternity - time without end                    
time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
alpha and omega - the first and last; signifies God's eternity
2.eternity - a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife
being, beingness, existence - the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries"
3.eternity - a seemingly endless time interval (waiting)
interval, time interval - a definite length of time marked off by two instants

eternity
noun 1. the afterlife, heaven, paradise, the next world, the hereafter
noun 3. ages, years, an age, centuries, for ever (informal) aeons, donkey's years (informal) yonks (informal) a month of Sundays (informal) a long time or while, an age or eternity
Translations
eternity [ɪˈtəːnɪtɪ] neternidad f
eternity [ɪˈtəːnɪtɪ] néternité f
eternity [ɪˈtəːnɪtɪ] nEwigkeit f
eternity [ɪˈtəːnɪtɪ] neternità


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That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we
She looked at me with that strange, unblinking gaze, and she thought and spoke with the slow deliberateness that characterized everything about her, as if well aware of an eternity that was hers and in which there was no need for haste.
He tried to dispel these thoughts, he tried to persuade himself that he was not living for this transient life, but for the life of eternity, and that there was peace and love in his heart.
 
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