| Main Entry: | perpetuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being perpetual |
Synonyms: |
constancy, continuance, continuity, endurance |
| Main Entry: | perpetuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unlimited time |
Synonyms: |
all time, eternity, forever |
| Concept: | [Endless duration] Perpetuity. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
perpetuity, eternity, everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia; interminability, agelessness, everlastingness; perpetuation; continued existence, uninterrupted existence; perennity; permanence (durability).
-verbs
last forever, endure forever, go on forever; have no end., eternize, perpetuate.
-adjectives
perpetual, eternal; everduring, everlasting, everliving, everflowing; continual, sempiternal; coeternal; endless, unending; ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing; endless, unending, interminable, having no end; unfading, evergreen, amaranthine; neverending, never-dying, never-fading; deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable.
-adverbs
perpetually; always, ever, evermore, aye; forever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, forever and ever; in all ages, from age to age; without end; world without end, time without end; in secula seculorum; to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to the "last syllable of recorded time" [Macbeth]; till doomsday; constantly (very frequently).
-phrases
esto perpetuum; labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum [Horace]; "but thou shall flourish in immortal youth" [Addison]; "Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought" [Addison]; "her immortal part with angels lives" [Romeo & Juliet]; ohne Rast [Goethe's motto "without rest" (German)];
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Antonyms: |
transience |
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| Main Entry: | continuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progression |
Synonyms: |
chain, cohesion, connection, constancy, continuance, continuousness, continuum, dovetailing, durability, duration, endurance, extension, flow, interrelationship, linking, perpetuity, persistence, prolongation, protraction, sequence, stability, stamina, succession, survival, train, uniting, unity, vitality, whole |
Antonyms: |
break, discontinuity, intermittence, interruption, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | eternity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forever |
Synonyms: |
aeon, afterlife, age, ages, blue moon, dog's age, endless time, endlessness, everlastingness, forever and a day, future, immortality, imperishability, infiniteness, infinitude, infinity, kingdom come, other world, perpetuity, time without end, timelessness, wild blue yonder, world without end |
| Main Entry: | immortality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endless life |
Synonyms: |
athanasia, deathlessness, endurance, eternal life, eternity, everlasting life, perpetuity, timelessness |
| Main Entry: | infinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endlessness |
Synonyms: |
beyond, boundlessness, continuity, continuum, endless time, eternity, expanse, extent, immeasurability, immensity, infinitude, limitlessness, myriad, perpetuity, sempiternity, space, ubiquity, unlimited space, vastitude, vastness |
Antonyms: |
bounds, definiteness, ending, finiteness, limitation |
| Main Entry: | sequence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | series, order |
Synonyms: |
arrangement, array, catenation, chain, classification, concatenation, consecution, consecutiveness, continuance, continuity, continuousness, course, cycle, disposition, distribution, flow, graduation, grouping, ordering, pecking order, perpetuity, placement, procession, progression, row, run, sequel, skein, streak, string, subsequence, succession, successiveness, track, train |
| Main Entry: | ceaselessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endlessness |
Synonyms: |
continuousness, eternalness, eternity, everlastingness, incessantness, perpetuity |
| Main Entry: | continuum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | continuation |
Synonyms: |
continuance, continuing, continuity, perpetuity, sequence |