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timelessness

timelessness

4 7.0
A quality of something that never looks old and fits any time
  • noun
  • /ˈtaɪmləsnəs/
translation icon : atemporalidad
  • The story's timelessness allows it to resonate with readers from any age.
  • a sense of timelessness

But the fact that The Office has has legs and has great, it has a kind of a timelessness.

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Examples

  • The village in the previous story, in contrast, connotes a timelessness transposed to the distant past.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Being alone gave me a certain timelessness.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Most of all, the appearance of this book shows the timelessness of its story.

    Blog text (31)

  • The scene might have been a page from a photo essay on the timelessness of small towns.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • "There's a timelessness about this place," Jeff said.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • A curious aspect of these constructions was their timelessness.

    Academic text (1995)

  • I love their timelessness.

    Free the Nipple (2014)

  • I walked lightly and carefully in that bubble of timelessness and thought neither behind me nor ahead, and was for the interval oddly happy.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Quoting Isaac Newton and Edmund Burke in his preface, Taylor underscored the international sources and timelessness of such truths.

    Academic text (2008)

  • His music captures a timelessness that makes it relevant in every generation.

Synonyms

perpetuity
vstimelessness
19 9.6

A situation that lasts forever

stresses lack of dating or period belonging rather than endless length
permanence
vstimelessness
15 5.5

A situation where something lasts a long time without big change

centers on being unaffected by time or period assignment instead
datelessness
vstimelessness
8.6

Not linked to any particular time, so it seems timeless

is about not being affected by the passage of time
agelessness
vstimelessness
7.5

The quality of seeming never to get older

focuses on not belonging to any specific time period instead
eternality
vstimelessness
8.4

Lasting forever without a beginning or end

emphasizes being unaffected by time rather than endless duration
everlastingness
vstimelessness
9.9

A state of lasting forever

highlights being outside time effects rather than long duration
sempiternity
vstimelessness
  • Literature
9.9

A time that never ends

focuses on absence of period identity rather than sheer endlessness
foreverness
vstimelessness
8.3

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

is about lack of time effect or period belonging not mere appearance

Antonyms

temporality
1 8.2

The fact that something lasts only for a short time

How Timeless

eternity
224 5.8
timelessness
4 7.0
ephemerality
1 8.9

Surface Forms

timelessness singular
timelessnesses plural

Morphology

timelessness = timeless (transparent) = time + less + ness

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'timeless', which itself is transparently 'time' + '-less'.

Etymology

Timelessness is made of time, -less (meaning 'without') and -ness (meaning 'state'), so it literally means the 'state of being without time'. That's why we call a style or work 'timeless' when it does not feel old or tied to one period.