(religion, philosophy, psychology) The condition in which all reality is experienced in the present, with the past contained only in memory and the future only in anticipation or speculation.

A nickname for the city of Rome. / A nickname for the city of Kyoto in Japan.

(of a submarine) to be lost at sea

(dated) Alternative form of eternal life

Immortality. / (religion) Life after death; the afterlife.

(idiomatic) A relationship involving three persons (usually two women and one man or two men and one woman) among whom there are conflicting and competing attachments of a romantic or emotional nature.

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion, (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess from Sleeping Beauty.

(cosmology, religion, philosophy) Eternal recurrence.

(cosmology, religion, philosophy) The belief or theory that all the events in cosmic history repeat in an endless cycle.

plural of eternal triangle