different between immortality vs cyberimmortality

English

Etymology

From Middle English immortalitee, immortalite, from Old French immortalité, from Latin immort?lit?s.

Morphologically immortal +? -ity

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??m???tæl?ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??m????tæl?ti/

Noun

immortality (countable and uncountable, plural immortalities)

1. (religion, mythology, biology) The condition of being immortal.
   1. Never dying

   2. Being remembered forever

Synonyms

• (never dying): undeadliness; see also Thesaurus:immortality

Related terms

• immortal
• mortality

Translations

See also

• elixir of life
• undead
• immortality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

cyber- +? immortality

Noun

cyberimmortality (uncountable)

1. A hypothetical form of immortality in which a person's consciousness, memories, etc. are transferred into a computer system.
   • 1999, Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, Cyberfeminism: connectivity, critique and creativity (page 207)

     ...it is quite likely that it will be a white male 'cyberelite' who will invest in cyberimmortality for themselves. Yet at the same time they will need women as real and virtual sex objects as well as menial workers/emotional supporters for their travails/travels in cyberspace.

   • 2011, Gregory R Hansell, William Grassie, H+/-: Transhumanism and Its Critics (page 42)

     It is this embodiment that transhumanism seeks to transcend in its most radical program of cyberimmortality.