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Eternally vs Externally - What's the difference?

eternally | externally |

As adverbs the difference between eternally and externally

is that eternally is for eternity; forever while externally is on the surface or the outside.

eternally

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adverb

(-)
  • For eternity; forever.
  • Unceasingly, recurringly.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1908, author= W. B. M. Ferguson
    • , title= Zollenstein, chapter=1 , passage=The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.}}

    externally

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • on the surface or the outside
  • visibly