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Immortally vs Eternally - What's the difference?

immortally | eternally |

As adverbs the difference between immortally and eternally

is that immortally is in an immortal manner while eternally is for eternity; forever.

immortally

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In an immortal manner.
  • *, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}

    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.}}