eternity B1 Topic:Time Also spelled Eter-nity US /ɪˈtɝnɪti/ UK /ɪˈtɜː.nə.ti/ See IPA manual Freq #5115 Meanings 1 noun Time that has no end; endless time. They believed their souls would live for all eternity. 2 noun A period that feels very long. It's been an eternity since we last saw each other. 3 noun Existence after death, especially in religious belief. Many religions teach that the soul spends eternity in another world. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · time that has no end;... infinityforever 2 noun · a period that feels very long. an age 3 noun · existence after death,... afterlife More agesalwaysnesscenturieseoneternalityextratemporalityforevernesshoursperpetuitytimelessnessyearsyonks ↔ Opposites momentsempiternity Word family Forms eternities Derived forms coeternityeternitariannoneternitypreeternitysupereternity Related forms endlessnesseternaleternalizeeternizeforever Etymology AI details From Middle English eternyte, from Old French eternité, from Latin aeternitās. Displaced native Old English ēcnes. *h₂ey- Proto-Indo-European eternyte Middle English eternité Old French aeternitās Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Time Religion & Belief External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # eternity **Type:** Word **Level:** B1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ɪˈtɝnɪti/ **IPA (UK):** /ɪˈtɜː.nə.ti/ **Frequency rank:** 5115 ## Meanings 1. Time that has no end; endless time. 2. A period that feels very long. 3. Existence after death, especially in religious belief. ## Examples - They believed their souls would live for all eternity. - It's been an eternity since we last saw each other. - Many religions teach that the soul spends eternity in another world. ## Synonyms - ages - alwaysness - centuries - eon - eternality - extratemporality - foreverness - hours - perpetuity - timelessness - years - yonks ## Antonyms - moment - sempiternity ## Derived Forms - coeternity - eternitarian - noneternity - preeternity - supereternity ## Related Forms - endlessness - eternal - eternalize - eternize - forever ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *h₂ey- - Root: eternyte - Root: eternité - Root: aeternitās ## Etymology From Middle English eternyte, from Old French eternité, from Latin aeternitās. Displaced native Old English ēcnes. ## AI Etymology Eternity comes from Middle English eternyte, from Old French eternité, from Latin aeternitās. Displaced native Old English ēcnes. In current use, the main senses are “Time that has no end; endless time” and “A period that feels very long”. Its deeper ancestry includes Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-. ## Topics - Time - Religion & Belief markdown