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Immortal vs Sempiternal - What's the difference?

immortal | sempiternal |

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

(-)
  • Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.
  • Never to be forgotten; that merits being always remembered.
  • his immortal words
  • Connected with or relating to immortality.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I have immortal longings in me.
  • (obsolete) Great; excessive; grievous.
  • (Hayward)

    Synonyms

    * undeadly * deathless * everlasting

    Antonyms

    * mortal

    Derived terms

    * immortality * immortally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 )
  • Tazmania/Middle Sphere is in need of builders, admin, and immortals . Immortals do not need experiance(SIC).

    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
  • Antonyms

    * eternal