English Explanatory Dictionary

immortality

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The condition of being immortal.
  2. Never dying
  3. Being remembered forever

Pronunciation

/ˌɪmɔːˈtæləti/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-immortality.wav /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/

Word forms

immortality immortalities

Etymology

From Middle English immortalitee, immortalite, from Old French immortalité, from Latin immortālitās. Morphologically immortal + -ity.

Synonyms

athanasy deathlessness eternal life everlasting life immortality undeadliness

Antonyms

mortality

Related words

immortal mortality elixir of life undead agelessness

Derived words

biological immortality cyberimmortality peach of immortality quantum immortality

Translations

Arabic: خُلُود Armenian: անմահություն Asturian: inmortalidá Azerbaijani: ölməzlik Azerbaijani: ölümsüzlük Belarusian: бессмяро́тнаць Bulgarian: безсмъ́ртие Catalan: immortalitat Chichewa: chamuyaya Chinese Mandarin: 不朽 Chinese Mandarin: 永生 Ngazidja Comorian: uhayati wa ɗaima Czech: nesmrtelnost Danish: udødelighed Dutch: onsterfelijkheid Esperanto: senmorteco Estonian: surematus Finnish: kuolemattomuus French: immortalité Galician: inmortalidade Georgian: უკვდავება German: Unsterblichkeit Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌴𐌹 Greek: αθανασία Ancient Greek: ἀθανασία Hebrew: אלמות Hebrew: אלמלא Hebrew: אלמלי Hindi: चिरस्थायित्व Hungarian: halhatatlanság Icelandic: ódauðleiki Italian: immortalità Japanese: 不老不死 Japanese: 不朽 Japanese: 不死 Japanese: 永生 Korean: 불사신 Kyrgyz: өлбөстүк Kyrgyz: өлүмсүздүк Latin: immortālitās Latvian: nemirstība Macedonian: бесмртност Norwegian Bokmål: udødelighet Old English: undēadlīcnes Persian: نامیرایی Polish: nieśmiertelność Portuguese: imortalidade Romanian: imortalitate
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