to eternize

Examples

• All

• In her poem, she sought to eternize the love she felt during their brief time together.

• The documentary aimed to eternize the achievements of the influential scientist.

• Fiction is opposed to the eternizing impulse of the imperial self; both history and fiction call on figured events and possibilities, bind us to the transient, and reinforce the belief that the self is vulnerable to change suffered at the hands of unassimilable human others.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

E

to enshrine

vsto eternize

• Formal

22 7.2

Keep something as very important and protect it in law or memory

keeps sacred respect and honor as focus rather than lasting memory

I

to immortalize

vsto eternize

19 7.0

Make a person or thing remembered forever by honoring them

emphasizes general lasting memory through art or fame rather than tributes

M

to memorialize

vsto eternize

• Formal

15 7.2

To honor and remember someone in a lasting, formal way

focuses on lasting memory through art or fame rather than formal ceremonies

E

to engrave

vsto eternize

6 5.3

To make a memory or feeling stay strongly in the mind

achieves strong mental impression rather than guaranteeing forever remembrance

E

to eternalize

vsto eternize

7.9

Make people remember someone or something forever

is the same in meaning but differs only in form or spelling

M

to monumentalize

vsto eternize

9.5

To remember a person or event with a lasting statue

uses art or fame to make something last rather than only physical monuments

I

to iconize

vsto eternize

7.9

To make a person or thing seem famous and admired by many

focuses on symbolic admiration rather than general lasting remembrance through art

Antonyms

F

to forget

∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

E

to erase

156 2.2

Remove all traces of something from memory or history

How Permanent

to eternize

9.9

to memorialize

• Formal

15 7.2

to preserve

496 3.4

to commemorate

66 5.8

to record

350 2.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology