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Sustainable vs Everlasting - What's the difference?

sustainable | everlasting |

As adjectives the difference between sustainable and everlasting

is that sustainable is able to be sustained while everlasting is lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.

As a noun everlasting is

an everlasting flower.

sustainable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be sustained.
  • Able to be produced or sustained for an indefinite period without damaging the environment, or without depleting a resource; renewable.
  • * 2008 , Kate L. Harrison, The Green Bride Guide , ISBN 140221345X, page 174 [http://books.google.com/books?id=O5FyqGQmdpUC&pg=PA174&dq=sustainable]:
  • In addition to the resources listed in the organic and local food sections earlier, a good source of sustainable meat is Heritage Foods USA (heritagefoodsusa.com).
  • * 2008 August–October, Dawn Brighid, "A Taste of Hope", in Organic Gardening , ISSN 1536-108X, volume 55, number 6, page 73 [http://books.google.com/books?id=S8MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA73&dq=%22that+sustainable%22]:
  • Some critics have asserted that sustainable food is "elitist"; that it's too expensive and not widely available.
  • * 2010 , , ISBN 9780061718946, page 129 [http://books.google.com/books?id=_-Z6Umuq68EC&pg=PA129&dq=sustainable]:
  • A city on a hill—or many cities on hills—surrounded by unbroken vistas of beautiful countryside; small, thriving, family-run farms growing organic, seasonal, and sustainable fruits and vegetables specific to the region.

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    everlasting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lasting or enduring forever; existing or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.
  • * (rfdate), (w) xx1. 33
  • The Everlasting God.
  • Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive.
  • * (rfdate), (w) xvii. 8
  • I will give to thee, and to thy seed after theethe land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
  • * (rfdate), (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • And heard thy everlasting yawn confess / The pains and penalties of idleness.
  • (label) Existing with infinite temporal duration (as opposed to existence outside of time).
  • (label) Extremely.
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  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.}}

    Usage notes

    * Everlasting, Eternal. Eternal denotes (when taken strictly) without beginning or end of duration; everlasting is sometimes used in our version of the Scriptures in the sense of eternal, but in modern usage is confined to the future, and implies no intermission as well as no end. *: Whether we shall meet again I know not; Therefore our everlasting farewell take; Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius. -(William Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * eternal, immortal, interminable, endless, never-ending, infinite, unlimited, unceasing, uninterrupted, continual, unintermitted, incessant * (existing with infinite temporal duration ) sempiternal

    Antonyms

    * (of a short life) ephemeral * (existing or continuing without end) finite, limited, mortal

    Derived terms

    * everlasting flower. * everlasting pea

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An everlasting flower.
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 313:
  • ‘It is true perhaps it is too late now for you to look like a rose; but you can always look like an everlasting .’
  • A cloth fabric for shoes, etc.
  • (Webster 1913) English karmadharaya compounds