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entirety
English
Alternative forms
- intirety (archaic)
Etymology
From Old French entiereté, from Latin integrit?s, from integer (“complete, whole”). Doublet of integrity.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?n?ta?.?.??.ti/, /?n-/
- (UK, General New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /?n?ta?.?.??ti/, /-?ta?.?.ti/, /-?t????ti/, /?n-/
Noun
entirety (countable and uncountable, plural entireties)
- The whole; the complete or amount.
- Due to the early rainout, the game will be replayed in its entirety on Friday.
Synonyms
- totality, whole; see also Thesaurus:entirety
Related terms
- entire
Translations
Anagrams
- entierty, eternity, tenerity
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eternity
English
Alternative forms
- æternity (archaic)
- æternitie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English eternyte, from Old French eternité, eternitez, from Latin aeternit?s.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??t??.n?.ti/
- (US) enPR: ?-tûr?n?-t?, IPA(key): /??t?n?ti/
Noun
eternity (countable and uncountable, plural eternities)
- (uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time.
- (uncountable, philosophy) Existence outside of time.
- (countable) A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.
- (metaphysical) The remainder of time that elapses after death.
- (informal, hyperbolic) A comparatively long time.
Usage notes
- In the sense "a comparatively long time", eternity is always used with the indefinite article (an eternity).
- In philosophy, the common use of eternity to refer to an infinite time is considered incorrect, eternity referring to existence outside of time; existence within time but of an infinite temporal duration is called everlastingness or sempiternity
Synonyms
- (existence outside of time): atemporality, eternal now, extratemporality; see also Thesaurus:timelessness
- (infinite time): all time, perpetuity; see also Thesaurus:eternity
- (time extending infinitely far into the future): evermore, forever, foreverhood
- (remainder of time that elapses after death): afterlife; see also Thesaurus:life after death
- (comparatively long time): an age, ages, centuries, donkey's years, hours, a lifetime, years, yonks; see also Thesaurus:eon
Antonyms
- (existence outside of time): sempiternity
Derived terms
- eternity past
- eternity future
Related terms
- eternal
- eternize
Translations
Anagrams
- entierty, entirety, tenerity
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