Immutable vs Eternity - What's the difference?
immutable | eternity |
Unable to be changed without exception.
(programming, of a variable) Not able to be altered in the memory after its value is set initially, such as a constant.
(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 immutable and eternity
is that immutable is something that cannot be changed while eternity is (uncountable) existence without end, infinite time.As an adjective immutable
is unable to be changed without exception.immutable
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Adjective
(-)- The government has enacted an immutable law.
Antonyms
* mutable * nonimmutableDerived terms
* strongly immutable * weakly immutableAnagrams
* ----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.