'Eternity' definitions:
Definition of 'eternity'
(from WordNet)
noun
Time without end [syn: eternity, infinity]
noun
A state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife [syn: eternity, timelessness, timeless existence]
noun
A seemingly endless time interval (waiting)
Definition of 'Eternity'
From: GCIDE
- Eternity \E*ter"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Eternities. [F. ['e]ternit['e], L. aeternitas, fr. aeternus. See Etern.]
- 1. Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time. [1913 Webster]
- The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. --Is. lvii. 15. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Condition which begins at death; immortality. [1913 Webster]
- Thou know'st 't is common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'eternity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a better place,
- aeon,
- afterlife,
- age,
- ages,
- all-comprehensiveness,
- all-inclusiveness,
- an eternity,
- better world,
- Beulah,
- Beulah Land,
- blue moon,
- boundlessness,
- ceaselessness,
- century,
- coeternity,
- constancy,
- continualness,
- continuance,
- countlessness,
- datelessness,
- durability,
- endless time,
- endlessness,
- eternal home,
- eternalness,
- ever-duringness,
- everlasting moment,
- everlastingness,
- everness,
- exhaustlessness,
- forever,
- foreverness,
- glory,
- happy hunting ground,
- Heaven,
- heaven above,
- heavenly kingdom,
- high heaven,
- holiness,
- illimitability,
- immeasurability,
- immensity,
- immortality,
- immutability,
- incalculability,
- incessancy,
- incomprehensibility,
- indestructibility,
- inexhaustibility,
- infinite duration,
- infinite goodness,
- infinite justice,
- infinite love,
- infinite mercy,
- infinite power,
- infinite wisdom,
- infiniteness,
- infinitude,
- infinity,
- innumerability,
- interminability,
- kingdom come,
- kingdom of glory,
- kingdom of God,
- kingdom of heaven,
- Land of Beulah,
- light,
- limitlessness,
- long,
- long time,
- long while,
- majesty,
- measurelessness,
- month of Sundays,
- never-endingness,
- neverness,
- no time,
- numberlessness,
- omnipotence,
- omnipotency,
- omnipresence,
- omniscience,
- omnisciency,
- otherworld,
- Paradise,
- perdurability,
- perenniality,
- perennialness,
- permanence,
- perpetualness,
- perpetuity,
- presence of God,
- realm of light,
- right smart spell,
- sempiternity,
- sovereignty,
- stability,
- termlessness,
- the happy land,
- the Promised Land,
- the world above,
- time without end,
- timelessness,
- ubiquity,
- unceasingness,
- unity,
- universality,
- unmeasurability,
- world without end,
- years,
- years on end