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eternity
Sign in to saveAlso known as sempiternity, everlasting, perpetuity, always, forever
Eternity, also referred to as sempiternity or forever, is time with no end i.e. infinite.
Eternity is time that never ends—it goes on forever without any stopping point. It matters because it's a concept that appears across religion, philosophy, and science when people think about things like the afterlife, the universe, or the nature of time itself.
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Eternity, also referred to as sempiternity or forever, is time with no end i.e. infinite.
In the context of human life, eternity and death are co-existing realities. ==Etymology== Cicero used the word aeternitatis, written at some uncertain time between the years 88 - 81 BC (work: De Inventione 1, 27, 39. : tempus autem est—id quo nunc utimur, nam ipsum quidem generaliter definire difficile est—pars quaedam aeternitatis cum alicuius annui, menstrui, diurni nocturnive spatii certa significatione.) which is an early or the earliest extant written form from which the English word is derived; first shown in history in an approx. 1374 translation by Chaucer. The first usage in French is 1175: eternitez: B. de Ste-Maure, 'Ducs Normandie. == Philosophy ==