everlastingness
- noun
- /ˌɛvərˈlæstɪŋnəs/
:
eternidad
- But in the everlastingness of Paradise, what does it signify to say how long anything lasts?
Examples
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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.
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The artist's work explores themes of nature and everlastingness throughout the ages.
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Some cultures believe in the everlastingness of the soul after death.
Synonyms
224
5.8
Time that never ends, often imagined after death
94
5.7
A time that never ends
19
9.6
A situation that lasts forever
3
4.9
A state of lasting for a long time
1
6.0
A state of having no end or limit
1
7.5
A state of not being limited by time, for example in the afterlife
1
9.9
A state of having no limit or end
Lasting forever without a beginning or end
A state of seeming to last or really lasting without an end
A time that never ends
The state of having no limits or end
A state with no beginning or end, like life after death
An old word for a time that never ends
The quality of lasting for a long time
Antonyms
How Long
224
5.8
15
5.5
52
4.7
104
2.8
557
3.0
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'.