different between immortal vs deity

English

Etymology

From Latin immort?lis, from prefix im- (“not”) (from in-) + mort?lis (“mortal”) (from mors (“death”), combining form mort- + adjectival suffix -alis). Displaced native undeadly, from Old English und?adl??.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m??t?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m??t?l/
• Hyphenation: im?mor?tal
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?l

Adjective

immortal (not comparable)

1. Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.
2. Never to be forgotten; that merits being always remembered.

3. Connected with or relating to immortality.
4. (obsolete) Exceedingly great; excessive; grievous.
   • 1603, John Hayward, The Right of Succession Asserted

     immortal and mercyless butchery

Synonyms

• undeadly
• deathless
• everlasting

Antonyms

• mortal

Derived terms

• immortality
• immortally

Related terms

• (never dying): indestructible, unabolishable, unextinguishable
• (being always remembered): unerasable

Translations

Noun

immortal (plural immortals)

1. One who is not susceptible to death.
2. A member of an elite regiment of the Persian army.
3. A member of the Académie française.
4. (Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon.

   Synonyms: immort, wizard

   • 1999, "Corey Crawford", RECRUITING: [circle] Tazmania/Middle Sphere: Admin, Builders, Immortals (on newsgroup rec.games.mud.announce)

     Tazmania/Middle Sphere is in need of builders, admin, and immortals. […] Immortals do not need experiance^[sic].

Translations

Related terms

• mortal
• mortality
• mortician

Further reading

• Persian Immortals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Académie française on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin immort?lis

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.mo??tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im.mur?tal/

Adjective

immortal (masculine and feminine plural immortals)

1. immortal

Antonyms

• mortal

Related terms

• immortalitat

English

Etymology

From Middle French deité, from Latin deit?s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?di?.?.t?/, /?de?.?.t?/, /?de???.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?di.?.ti/, [?di.?.?i], /?de?.?.ti/, [?de?.?.?i]
• Hyphenation: de?i?ty

Noun

deity (countable and uncountable, plural deities)

1. Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.X.4:

     Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.

2. A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. [from 14th c.]
   • 2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 23:

     The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.

Synonyms

• (a god): See Thesaurus:god

Hyponyms

• household deity

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cosmocrat
• deism
• god
• godliness
• theism

References

Anagrams

• Tidey, etyid