eternity

Plural: eternities

Noun

• Infinite time; endless existence beyond the normal limits of time.
• time without end
• a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife
• a seemingly endless time interval (waiting)
• Existence without end, infinite time.
• Existence outside of time.
• A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.
• The remainder of time that elapses after death.
• A comparatively long time.

Examples

• It's been an eternity since we last saw each other.
• Waiting for the opponent to make a move felt like an ETERNITY, stretching the game indefinitely.

Synonyms

infinity, timeless existence, timelessness, a lifetime, afterlife, ages, all time, alwaysness, an age, atemporality, centuries, donkey's years, eon, eternal now, eternality, eternity, evermore, extratemporality, forever, foreverhood, foreverness, hours, life after death, perpetuity, years, yonks

Antonyms

moment, sempiternity

Related Words

endlessness, eternal, eternalize, eternize, forever