everlastingness

Quality of permanence

Everlastingness is the quality of lasting forever or seeming to.

The word appears in religious and philosophical contexts about eternity, but also describes anything that feels interminable: the everlastingness of a dull sermon, the everlastingness of God's love.

The noun form of everlasting, it carries the same range from the genuinely eternal to the merely tedious.

spiritual

eternity

Boundless temporal existence

divinity · salvation · heaven · nirvana · moksha · samsara · resurrection · soul · paradise · hereafter

duration

perpetuity

Infinite continuation of time

eternality · timelessness · boundlessness · limitlessness · infinitude · sempiternity · continuity · constancy · persistence · durability

quality

timeless

Unaffected by eras

perennial · abiding · unwavering · steadfast · unfaltering · imperishable · indelible · classic · time-honored · unchanging

Opposites
temporal duration

everlastingnesstransience

Brevity of existence

temporariness · impermanence · ephemerality · transitoriness · brevity

stability vs. change

everlastingnessmutability

Capacity for alteration

changeability · inconstancy · instability · impermanence · perishability

Family

last, ever, lasting, everlasting, everlastingly

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G