immortality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
religion
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English immortalitee, immortalite, from Old French immortalité, from Latin immortālitās. Morphologically immortal + -ity.
Base: immortal
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: immortalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being immortal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.
In the little, as in the great things of life, are to be found the type and sign of our immortality. Every hope that looks forward is pledge of the hereafter to which it refers. Who rests content with the present? None. We have all deep within us a craving for the future.
His one desire was to become the father of a man like himself, and it held him with a grip he only partially understood, for it was the first great desire, the first great passion of his life. Falling in love was a mere physical triviality, like warm sun or cool water, beside this divine hope of immortality: "I continue."
gloss: The condition of being immortal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You have to salute Gerrard's bravery in accepting the challenge of trying to turn Rangers around given that he has zero experience in senior management. Immortality beckons if he does it.
Synonyms: athanasy
deathlessness
eternal life
everlasting life
immortality
Antonyms: mortality
Related words: immortal
mortality
elixir of life
undead
agelessness
Derived words: biological immortality
cyberimmortality
peach of immortality
quantum immortality
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: خُلُود
roman: ḵulūd
lang: Armenian
word: անմահություն
roman: anmahutʻyun
lang: Asturian
word: inmortalidá
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ölməzlik
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ölümsüzlük
lang: Belarusian
word: бессмяро́тнаць
roman: bjessmjarótnacʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: безсмъ́ртие
roman: bezsmǎ́rtie
lang: Catalan
word: immortalitat
lang: Chichewa
word: chamuyaya
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 不朽
roman: bùxiǔ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 永生
roman: yǒngshēng
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: uhayati wa ɗaima
lang: Czech
word: nesmrtelnost
lang: Danish
word: udødelighed
lang: Dutch
word: onsterfelijkheid
lang: Esperanto
word: senmorteco
lang: Estonian
word: surematus
lang: Finnish
word: kuolemattomuus
lang: French
word: immortalité
lang: Galician
word: inmortalidade
lang: Georgian
word: უკვდავება
roman: uḳvdaveba
lang: German
word: Unsterblichkeit
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌴𐌹
roman: undiwanei
lang: Greek
word: αθανασία
roman: athanasía
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀθανασία
roman: athanasía
lang: Hebrew
word: אלמות
roman: almavet
lang: Hebrew
word: אלמלא
roman: ilmalei
lang: Hebrew
word: אלמלי
roman: ilmalei
lang: Hindi
word: चिरस्थायित्व
roman: cirasthāyitva
lang: Hungarian
word: halhatatlanság
lang: Icelandic
word: ódauðleiki
lang: Italian
word: immortalità
lang: Japanese
word: 不老不死
roman: furōfushi
lang: Japanese
word: 不朽
roman: fukyū
lang: Japanese
word: 不死
roman: fushi
lang: Japanese
word: 永生
roman: eisei
lang: Korean
word: 불사신
roman: bulsasin
lang: Kyrgyz
word: өлбөстүк
roman: ölböstük
lang: Kyrgyz
word: өлүмсүздүк
roman: ölümsüzdük
lang: Latin
word: immortālitās
lang: Latvian
word: nemirstība
lang: Macedonian
word: бесмртност
roman: besmrtnost
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: udødelighet
lang: Old English
word: undēadlīcnes
lang: Persian
word: نامیرایی
roman: nāmīrāyī
lang: Polish
word: nieśmiertelność
lang: Portuguese
word: imortalidade
lang: Romanian
word: imortalitate
lang: Russian
word: бессме́ртие
roman: bessmértije
lang: Russian
word: бессме́ртность
roman: bessmértnostʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бѐсмртно̄ст
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bèsmrtnōst
lang: Slovak
word: nesmrteľnosť
lang: Slovene
word: nesmrtnost
lang: Spanish
word: inmortalidad
lang: Swahili
word: hali ya kutokufa
lang: Swedish
word: odödlighet
lang: Tagalog
word: kawalang-kamatayan
lang: Thai
word: อมตภาพ
roman: à-má-dtà-pâap
lang: Turkish
word: ölümsüzlük
lang: Ukrainian
word: безсме́ртя
roman: bezsmértja