Everlasting vs Continuous - What's the difference?
everlasting | continuous | Synonyms |
Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.
* (rfdate), (w) xx1. 33
Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive.
* (rfdate), (w) xvii. 8
* (rfdate), (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) Existing with infinite temporal duration (as opposed to existence outside of time).
(label) Extremely.
*, chapter=10
, title= An everlasting flower.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 313:
A cloth fabric for shoes, etc.
(Webster 1913)
English karmadharaya compounds
Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.
* 1847 , , Ticknor and Fields (1854), page 90:
Without intervening space; continued; protracted; extended.
(botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
(analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x'' in the domain, for each small open interval ''D'' about ''f''(''x''), there's an interval containing ''x'' whose image is in ''D .
(mathematics, more generally, of a function) Such that each open set in the range has an open preimage.
(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
Everlasting is a synonym of continuous.
As adjectives the difference between everlasting and continuous
is that everlasting is lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal while continuous is without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening time.As a noun everlasting
is an everlasting flower.everlasting
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The Everlasting God.
- I will give to thee, and to thy seed after theethe land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
- And heard thy everlasting yawn confess / The pains and penalties of idleness.
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Usage notes
* Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end. *: Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. -(William Shakespeare)Synonyms
* eternal, immortal, interminable, endless, never-ending, infinite, unlimited, unceasing, uninterrupted, continual, unintermitted, incessant * (existing with infinite temporal duration ) sempiternalAntonyms
* (of a short life) ephemeral * (existing or continuing without end) finite, limited, mortalDerived terms
* everlasting flower. * everlasting peaNoun
(en noun)- ‘It is true perhaps it is too late now for you to look like a rose; but you can always look like an everlasting .’
continuous
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Adjective
(-)- a continuous current of electricity
- he can hear its continuous murmur
- a continuous line of railroad
- Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.