eternal

Meanings

Adjective

• Lasting forever; unending.
• existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly
• Constant; perpetual; ceaseless; ever-present.
• Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.

Noun

• One who lives forever; an immortal.

Origin

• From Middle English eternal, from Old French eternal, from Late Latin aeternālis, from Latin aeternus, from aevum.