eternal suffering

Hell's perpetual agony

Eternal suffering is unending pain or torment, typically invoked in religious contexts describing the fate of the damned: condemned to eternal suffering in hell.

The phrase appears in theological discussions of damnation and in hyperbolic complaints about prolonged misery: Waiting in that line felt like eternal suffering.

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anguish · perdition · despair · pit of despair · torture · abyss · inferno · purgatory · fire and brimstone · brimstone · wailing · gnashing · condemned · cursed · endless · never ending · unending · misery

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Opposites
experiential quality

eternal sufferingeternal bliss

Unending perfect happiness

eternal peace · eternal rest

theological destination

eternal sufferingheaven

Sky or bliss

eternal salvation · paradise · nirvana · Elysium · Valhalla

presence of affliction

eternal sufferingeternal rest

Euphemism for death

deliverance · liberation · oblivion · annihilation

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eternal, eternity, eternally, eternities, suffer, suffering, sufferer, suffers, suffered

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG