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Definition of "eternity" []

  • Time without beginning or end; infinite time. (noun)
  • The state or quality of being eternal. (noun)
  • The timeless state following death. (noun)
  • The afterlife; immortality. (noun)
  • A very long or seemingly endless time: waited in the dentist's office for an eternity. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "eternity" in a sentence
  • "We have been blinded by our own cleverness, blinded by false perceptions of those qualities that we term eternity and infinity."
  • "With what sublime abandon does such a man let go his soul into the mystery of that silence which we call eternity!"
  • "We are all going post to what they call eternity, and may as well be above board while there's time."