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How to pronounce eternity in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms timeless existence, timelessness
Type of beingness, existence, face of the earth, being
Derivation eternal
Type Words
Synonyms infinity
Type of time
Has types alpha and omega
Type Words
Type of time interval, interval
Derivation eternal

Examples of eternity

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For Ryoji Ikeda, data is a thing of hypnotic beauty and a gateway onto eternity.
From the online.wsj.com
Mugung in Korean also means eternity, which is not such a good name for a train.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Eternity starts today, at the appointed hour, the appointed moment of happiness.
From the theepochtimes.com
One year without a Section II title seemed like an eternity for the Red Raiders.
From the timesunion.com
What felt like an eternity in the car ended when they made it to Good Samaritan.
From the dailyherald.com
On the other hand, seven years is an eternity for a teenager to wait for a girl.
From the time.com
In other words, when measured in regular-season dog years, an eternity from now.
From the thenewstribune.com
We pulled up at a canvas tent out on the ice that seemed to stretch to eternity.
From the guardian.co.uk
Lee Probert takes an age to decide, but after an eternity he points to the spot.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Time without end
  • A state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife
  • A seemingly endless time interval (waiting)
  • (eternal) ageless: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"
  • (eternal) endless: tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon"
  • (eternally) everlastingly: for a limitless time; "no one can live forever"; "brightly beams our Father's mercy from his lighthouse evermore"- P.P.Bliss
  • While in the popular mind, eternity often simply means existence for a limitless amount of time, many have used it to refer to a timeless existence altogether outside time. By contrast, infinite temporal existence is then called "sempiternity. ...
  • Eternity is an album released by Alice Coltrane in 1975.
  • Eternity is an album by the British rock band Anathema. It was released on 11 November 1996 through Peaceville Records. Eternity marked the first shift in Anathema's style and sound from their doom metal roots to alternative rock. It features a version of Roy Harper's track "Hope". ...