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Ephemeral vs Immortal - What's the difference?

ephemeral | immortal |

As nouns the difference between ephemeral and immortal

is that ephemeral is something which lasts for a short period of time while immortal is one who is not susceptible to death.

As adjectives the difference between ephemeral and immortal

is that ephemeral is lasting for a short period of time while immortal is not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.

ephemeral

English

(wikipedia ephemeral)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something which lasts for a short period of time.

    • Synonyms

    * (short-lived) ephemeron

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lasting for a short period of time.
  • * Vicesimus Knox
    • Esteem, lasting esteem, the esteem of good men, like himself, will be his reward, when the gale of ephemeral popularity shall have gradually subsided.
  • * Sir J. Stephen
    • sentences not of ephemeral , but of eternal, efficacy
  • * '>citation
    • It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral , because human, sorrows.
  • (biology) Existing for only one day, as with some flowers, insects, and diseases.
  • (geology, of a body of water) Usually dry, but filling with water for brief periods during and after precipitation.
  • * 1986 , W.H. Raymond, "Clinoptilolite Deposit in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, U.S.A.", in Y?ichi Murakami et al. (editors), New Developments in Zeolite Science and Technology (conference proceedings), Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-444-98981-9, page 80:
    • The graben constitutes a depositional basin and a topographic low, underlain by Cretaceous shales, in which volcanic debris accumulated in ephemeral lakes and streams in Oligocene and early Miocene time.

    Synonyms

    * (lasting for a short period of time) temporary, transitory, fleeting, evanescent, momentary, short-lived, short, volatile * See also

    Antonyms

    * (lasting for a long period of time) permanent, eternal, everlasting, timeless.

    Derived terms

    * ephemerally

    Related terms

    * ephemera * ephemeron * ephemerality

    External links

    * *

    immortal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.
  • Never to be forgotten; that merits being always remembered.
    • his immortal words
  • Connected with or relating to immortality.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have immortal longings in me.
  • (obsolete) Great; excessive; grievous.
    • (Hayward)

    Synonyms

    * undeadly * deathless * everlasting

    Antonyms

    * mortal

    Derived terms

    * immortality * immortally

    Related terms

    * (never dying) indestructible, unabolishable, unextinguishable * (being always remembered) unerasable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is not susceptible to death.
  • A member of an elite regiment of the Persian army.
  • A member of the Académie française.
  • (Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon; a wizard.
  • * 1999 , "Corey Crawford", RECRUITING: [circle] Tazmania/Middle Sphere: Admin, Builders, Immortals'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.mud.announce )
    • Tazmania/Middle Sphere is in need of builders, admin, and immortals . Immortals do not need experiance(SIC).

    External links

    * (Persian Immortals) *

    Related terms

    * mortal * mortality * mortician ----