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Sempiternal vs Deathless - What's the difference?

sempiternal | deathless |

As adjectives the difference between sempiternal and deathless

is that sempiternal is seemingly everlasting or eternal while deathless is undying or immortal.

sempiternal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Seemingly everlasting or eternal.
  • * 1841 , ",
    • The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to lose our sempiternal memory and to do something without knowing how or why; in short to draw a new circle.
  • * 2008 , Shivangi Singh, " A sneak-peek at 'just friends' of filmdom!", ZeeNews , August 2,
    • but in filmdom, the sempiternal question continues: Can a male and female actor be just 'good friends'?
  • (philosophy) everlasting, that is having infinite temporal duration; as opposed to eternal, outside time and thus lacking temporal duration

    • Related terms

    * sempitern * sempiternally * sempiternity

    Antonyms

    * eternal

    Anagrams

    * * English words suffixed with -al

    deathless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Undying or immortal.
  • * 2005 , Tony Magistrale, Abject Terrors: Surveying the Modern and Postmodern Horror Film
    • Like the deathless vampire who must repeat its stalk-and-kill cycle in order to satisfy a recurring blood hunger, the earliest film horrors cannibalized its literary ancestry again and again.
  • Of a work of art or literature: conspicuously excellent, of the highest order, guaranteed not to be lost or forgotten.
    • Her novels are filled with unforgettable characters and deathless prose.

    Derived terms

    * deathlessly * deathlessness