Everlasting vs Eternity - What's the difference?
everlasting | eternity |
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
(uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time.
* 1829', , ''Sermon LVIII: On the '''Eternity of God'', in ''Sermons on Several Occasions , Volume 2, 10th edition,
* 1886 , , Systematic Theology: a Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use of Theological Students ,
* 2000 , , Human Nature in It's Fourfold State ,
(uncountable, philosophy) Existence outside of time.
* 1879 , (editor) ''Journal of Discourses , Volume 21,
(countable) A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.
(metaphysical) The remainder of time that elapses after death.
(informal, hyperbole) A comparatively long time.
As nouns the difference between everlasting and eternity
is that everlasting is an everlasting flower while eternity is existence without end, infinite time.As an adjective everlasting
is lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.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.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.}}
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 .’
eternity
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Alternative forms
* (archaic) * (obsolete)Noun
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- Eternity' has generally been considered as divisible into two parts; which have been termed, '''eternity''' ''a parte ante'', and '''eternity''' ''a parte post'': that is, in plain English, that '''eternity''' which is past, and that ' eternity which is to come.
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- This theory regards creation as an act of God in eternity past.
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- Those who like not the company of the saints on earth will get none of it in eternity'; but, as godless company is their delight now, they will afterwards get enough of it, when they have ' eternity to pass in the roaring and blaspheming society of devils and reprobates in hell.
- We sometimes speak of eternity' in contradistinction to time; and often say, "through time and into '''eternity''';" and again "from '''eternity''' to '''eternity'''," which is simply another form of expressing the same idea, and "pass through time into '''eternity'''." in other words, time is a short period allotted to man in his probationary state—and we use the word time in contradistinction to the word ' eternity , merely for the accommodation of man in his finite sphere, that we may comprehend and learn to measure periods.
- It's been an eternity since we last saw each other.
