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everlastingness

everlastingness

9.9
A state of lasting forever
  • noun
  • /ˌɛvərˈlæstɪŋnəs/
translation icon : eternidad
  • But in the everlastingness of Paradise, what does it signify to say how long anything lasts?

Examples

  • She feeds crumbs of time to all who live in this shadowed place, and of course they poison stomachs, since the everlastingness of the nunc stans is not our lot.

    Academic text (1998)
  • I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • The realest thing that ever happened to me happened almost in sight of Molly, of her everlastingness.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Many people seek comfort in the everlastingness of love and friendship.

  • The artist's work explores themes of nature and everlastingness throughout the ages.

  • Some cultures believe in the everlastingness of the soul after death.

Synonyms

eternity
vseverlastingness
224 5.8

Time that never ends, often imagined after death

is the general quality of lasting forever rather than specific contexts
infinity
vseverlastingness
94 5.7

A time that never ends

emphasizes lasting forever as a quality rather than a mathematical concept
perpetuity
vseverlastingness
19 9.6

A situation that lasts forever

focuses on the pure quality of always continuing rather than legal or financial use
permanency
vseverlastingness
3 4.9

A state of lasting for a long time

specifies lasting forever more strongly than an indefinite continuation
endlessness
vseverlastingness
1 6.0

A state of having no end or limit

frames the same permanence specifically as a lack of ending
timelessness
vseverlastingness
  • Literature
1 7.5

A state of not being limited by time, for example in the afterlife

treats never ending duration as a temporal quality within time
infinitude
vseverlastingness
  • Literature
1 9.9

A state of having no limit or end

uses that infinite idea specifically as never ending duration
eternality
vseverlastingness
8.4

Lasting forever without a beginning or end

expresses the same enduring quality framed as a lasting state
foreverness
vseverlastingness
8.3

A state of seeming to last or really lasting without an end

is the same notion but presented as the abstract quality of duration
sempiternity
vseverlastingness
  • Literature
9.9

A time that never ends

is the basic idea of never ending without the extra formality
infiniteness
vseverlastingness
8.8

The state of having no limits or end

applies that boundlessness specifically to lasting forever in time
timeless existence
vseverlastingness
  • Literature
9.3

A state with no beginning or end, like life after death

is the general lasting quality not tied to religious imagery
alway
vseverlastingness
  • Archaic
9.9

An old word for a time that never ends

conveys the same endlessness but in modern, neutral wording
abidingness
vseverlastingness
7.8

The quality of lasting for a long time

means never ending rather than simply long lasting or durable

Antonyms

2 8.1

A short time before something changes or ends

1 8.9

A state of lasting only a short time, like a rainbow

How Long

eternity
224 5.8
everlastingness
9.9
permanence
15 5.5
continuity
52 4.7
duration
104 2.8
temporary
557 3.0
briefness
3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

everlastingness = everlasting (transparent) = ever + last + ing + ness

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'everlasting', producing the expected meaning 'the quality of being everlasting'.

Etymology

The word everlastingness combines ever ('always') and lasting ('continuing') with the ending -ness that makes it a thing or quality. So, everlastingness means the 'quality of lasting forever'.