eternity

I

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Time without end]

Syn. endlessness, forever, endless duration, infinite duration, timelessness, everlastingness, perpetuity, world without end, saecula saeculorum (Latin), the future, infinity, all eternity, forever and a day, eon, age; see also immortality 1 .

Ant. moment, instant, second.

2. [Life after death]

Syn. other world, everlastingness, afterlife; see immortality 2 .

II

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

forever, infinity, immortality, world without end, timelessness, afterlife. ''Where there is no where and no when.''—Arthur Schopenhauer. ''The sum of all sums.''—Lucretius.

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The totality of time without beginning or end: eternality, eternalness, infinity, perpetuity, sempiternity. See LIMITED. 2. The quality or state of having no end: ceaselessness, endlessness, eternality, eternalness, everlastingness, perpetuity, world without end. See CONTINUE. 3. Endless life after death: afterlife, deathlessness, everlasting life, everlastingness, immortality. See CONTINUE, LIVE. 4. A long time: eon, long1, year (used in plural). Informal: age (used in plural), blue moon. Idioms: forever and a day, forever and ever, month of Sundays. See TIME.