eternity
n.
timelessness, infinity; time after death
Eternity
For other senses of the word "eternity", see
eternity (disambiguation). While in the popular mind, eternity often simply means existing for an
infinite, i.e., limitless, amount of
time, many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether outside of time. There are a number of
arguments for eternity, by which proponents of the concept, principally
Aristotle, purported to prove that matter, motion, and time must have existed eternally.
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eternity
Noun
1. time without end
(synonym) infinity
(hypernym) time
(hyponym) alpha and omega
2. a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife
(synonym) timelessness, timeless existence
(hypernym) being, beingness, existence
3. a seemingly endless time interval (waiting)
(hypernym) time interval, interval
Eternity
(n.)
Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
(n.)
Condition which begins at death; immortality.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Eternity
Eternity [from Latin aeternus, aeviternus from aevum an age] Originally eternity signified time divided into endless cycles stretching from the indefinite past through the present into the indefinite future, comprised within encompassing frontierless duration. Eternity therefore is the abstract sum total of endlessly cyclical time periods. As used in The Secret Doctrine, eternity often means a kosmic mahakalpa or manifestation period; thus the seven eternities means seven kosmic periods equivalent to 100 Years of Brahma or 311,040,000,000,000 human years. Even in the Hindu Vishnu-Purana, immortality, which is given as a definition of eternity, means merely "existence to the end of the Kalpa" (2:8). Occasionally used as a synonym for duration.
The emblem of eternity is the serpent in the form of a circle, biting with its active head its passive tail, and from its emanations spring worlds, beings, and things.