🧙 Claims to live forever 🧬 Believes in immortality

immortalist

1 9.9

A person who cannot die and lives forever, often in stories

noun
/ɪˈmɔːrtəlɪst/

Literature

: inmortalista

In the novel, an immortalist struggles with the loneliness of endless life.

Examples

Legends spoke of an immortalist who could not be harmed by time or disease.
The mysterious immortalist claimed to have witnessed the rise and fall of ancient empires.
An immortalist believes in eternal life.
The immortalist claimed to have discovered the secret to eternal youth!
In the fantasy series, the immortalist wanders through centuries, defying the passage of time.
The story featured an immortalist whose existence transcended the limits of the mortal world.
My favorite character is an immortalist who uses their agelessness to explore the mysteries of the universe.

Synonyms

immortal

vsimmortalist

Literature

23 8.2

A being like a god who lives forever and has power over part of nature

is a human who claims or is said to live forever often in stories

Antonyms

mortal

140 3.8

A human being who will die

Surface Forms

immortalist singular

immortalists plural

Morphology

immortalist = immortal (transparent) = im + mortal + ist

The noun is transparently formed from 'immortal' + '-ist' to indicate a person who is (or claims to be) immortal; the sense is straightforwardly compositional.

Etymology

Immortalist breaks into im- meaning 'not', mort- meaning 'death', and -ist like in artist, meaning 'a person'. So an immortalist can also mean a person in stories who is 'not dead' and lives forever.