eternal motion
Never-ceasing kinetic activity
Eternal motion is movement that continues forever without stopping or slowing.
The phrase often appears in philosophical or religious contexts describing perpetual cosmic processes or divine activity.
In physics, the related concept of perpetual motion—a machine that runs indefinitely without external energy—is considered impossible under thermodynamic laws.
The planets seemed locked in eternal motion around the sun.
- perpetualLasting without interruption
- infiniteHaving no bounds
- never endingContinuing without stop
- ceaselessWithout interruption or end
- endlessWithout termination or boundary
world without end · spinning · revolving · orbit · heavenly bodies · cycles · pendulum · clockwork · ticking clock · momentum · kinetic · energy flow · flowing · tireless · undying · cosmic · celestial · wheels
- Democritusatomism, atoms, atomic theory, indivisibles, infinite worlds
- ancient astronomyepicycles, stars, deferent, celestial sphere, geocentric
- Aristotelian philosophysubstance, essence, actuality, potentiality, matter
- Aristotelian metaphysicsprime mover, unmoved mover, first cause, actuality, potentiality
eternal motionstatic equilibrium
Zero net force, no motion
motionlessness · inertia · fixity · standstill · stagnation
eternal motionheat death
Universe's final entropic state
entropy · final rest · absolute zero · oblivion · annihilation
eternal motioncomplete rest
eternal, eternity, eternally, sempiternal, motion, motions, moving, motive, motivate