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What (who) is eternity - definition
ENDLESS TIME, AN INFINITE DURATION
Eternal existence; Sempiternity; Sempiternality; Eviternal; Coeternal; Sempiternal; Of all time
Eternity
·noun Condition which begins at death; immortality.
II. Eternity ·noun Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
eternity
1.
Eternity is time without an end or a state of existence outside time, especially the state which some people believe they will pass into after they have died.
I have always found the thought of eternity terrifying.
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2.
If you say that a situation lasted for an eternity, you mean that it seemed to last an extremely long time, usually because it was boring or unpleasant.
The war continued for an eternity...
= age
N-SING: a N
eternity
¦ noun (plural eternities) infinite or unending time.
?Theology endless life after death.
?(an eternity) informal an undesirably long period of time.
Wikipedia
Eternity
Eternity, in common parlance, means infinite time that never ends or the quality, condition, or fact of being everlasting or eternal. Classical philosophy, however, defines eternity as what is timeless or exists outside time, whereas sempiternity corresponds to infinite duration.
Examples of use of eternity
1. Later, Bernice said, "she started transitioning . . . to eternity, Friday night.
2. "Glory and eternity for the martyrs of Fallujah," it reads.
3. It felt like an eternity of dread, of not knowing.
4. After what seemed like an eternity, the shirt was folded.
5. "Every second seemed to last an eternity," recalls Ghassan.