English Explanatory Dictionary

eternalism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The view that time resembles space and thus past and future events are in some sense coexistent.
  2. The view that matter is uncreated and has existed, and will exist, eternally.

Word forms

eternalism

Etymology

From eternal + -ism.

Antonyms

presentism

Translations

German: Eternalismus
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