IMMORTALITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or state of being immortal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("immortality" is a kind of...):

permanence; permanency (the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration)

Antonym:

mortality (the quality or state of being mortal)

Derivation:

immortal (not subject to death)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perpetual life after death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("immortality" is a kind of...):

afterlife; hereafter (life after death)

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Context examples:

When they become such, there comes with the change the curse of immortality; they cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world; for all that die from the preying of the Un-Dead becomes themselves Un-Dead, and prey on their kind.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I'll try, Beth. and then and there Jo renounced her old ambition, pledged herself to a new and better one, acknowledging the poverty of other desires, and feeling the blessed solace of a belief in the immortality of love.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Whether Zambo can at last take these letters to the river, or whether I shall myself in some miraculous way carry them back with me, or, finally, whether some daring explorer, coming upon our tracks with the advantage, perhaps, of a perfected monoplane, should find this bundle of manuscript, in any case I can see that what I am writing is destined to immortality as a classic of true adventure.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You doubt your immortality, eh? Ha! ha! You are not sure of it. You won’t chance it. This life only you are certain is real.