eternity
/əˈtɜɹnəti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.80 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Eternity has generally been considered as divisible into two parts; which have been termed, eternity a parte ante, and eternity a parte post: that is, in plain English, that eternity which is past, and that eternity which is to come."
- "This theory regards creation as an act of God in eternity past."
- "Those who like not the company of the saints on earth will get none of it in eternity; but, as godless company is their delight now, they will afterwards get enough of it, when they have eternity to pass in the roaring and blaspheming society of devils and reprobates in hell."
- "We sometimes speak of eternity in contradistinction to time; and often say, "through time and into eternity;" and again "from eternity to eternity," which is simply another form of expressing the same idea, and "pass through time into eternity." in other words, time is a short period allotted to man in his probationary state—and we use the word time in contradistinction to the word eternity, merely for the accommodation of man in his finite sphere, that we may comprehend and learn to measure periods."
- "Every niche was filled by a funeral urn, and by marble shapes that bent down in a pale eternity of sorrow."
- "No limit / Not none that I can see / No limit / Not one, not one / Not one for you or me / No limit / Well, it can go until eternity, yeah / No limits to our love, girl"
Etymology
From Middle English eternyte, from Old French eternité, from Latin aeternitās. Displaced native Old English ēcnes.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂ey-, eternyte, eternité, aeternitās
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈtɜɹnəti/
- British English: /ɪˈtɜːnɪti/
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Synonyms
atemporality
eternal now
extratemporality
all time
perpetuity
evermore
forever
foreverhood
afterlife
an age
ages
centuries