Immortal vs Sempiternal - What's the difference?
immortal | sempiternal |
Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.
Never to be forgotten; that merits being always remembered.
Connected with or relating to immortality.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Great; excessive; grievous.
One who is not susceptible to death.
A member of an elite regiment of the Persian army.
A member of the Académie française.
(Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon; a wizard.
* 1999 , "Corey Crawford", RECRUITING: [circle] Tazmania/Middle Sphere: Admin, Builders, Immortals'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.mud.announce )
Seemingly everlasting or eternal.
* 1841 , ",
* 2008 , Shivangi Singh, "
(philosophy) everlasting, that is having infinite temporal duration; as opposed to eternal, outside time and thus lacking temporal duration
As adjectives the difference between immortal and sempiternal
is that immortal is not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying while sempiternal is seemingly everlasting or eternal.As a noun immortal
is one who is not susceptible to death.immortal
English
Adjective
(-)- his immortal words
- I have immortal longings in me.
- (Hayward)
Synonyms
* undeadly * deathless * everlastingAntonyms
* mortalDerived terms
* immortality * immortallyNoun
(en noun)- Tazmania/Middle Sphere is in need of builders, admin, and immortals . Immortals do not need experiance(SIC).
External links
* (Persian Immortals) *sempiternal
English
Adjective
(-)- 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.
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'?