| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | e·ter·ni·ty |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -tûr n-t |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. e·ter·ni·ties
1. Time without beginning or end; infinite time. 2. The state or quality of being eternal. 3a. The timeless state following death. b. The afterlife; immortality. 4. A very long or seemingly endless time: waited in the dentist's office for an eternity. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English eternite, from Old French, from Latin aeternit s, from aeternus, eternal. See eternal.
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