English Dictionary

eternity

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪˈtɜː.nə.ti/

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞 過剰級 くだけた表現

(uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time. / (uncountable, philosophy, theology) Existence outside of time. / (countable) A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.

日本語の意味

終わりなく続く状態、無限の時間（無限の存在） / 時間の枠組みを超えた存在、時間に囚われない状態（哲学、神学における概念） / 未来に向けて無限に続く期間

He watched the stars and felt as if time stretched into eternity.

彼は星を見つめ、時間が永遠に続くように感じた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time.

Eternity has generally been considered as divisible into two parts; which have been termed, eternity a parte ante, and eternity a parte post: that is, in plain English, that eternity which is past, and that eternity which is to come.

意味（2）

(uncountable, philosophy, theology) Existence outside of time.

We sometimes speak of eternity in contradistinction to time; and often say, through time and into eternity; and again from eternity to eternity, which is simply another form of expressing the same idea, and pass through time into eternity. in other words, time is a short period allotted to man in his probationary state—and we use the word time in contradistinction to the word eternity, merely for the accommodation of man in his finite sphere, that we may comprehend and learn to measure periods.

意味（3）

(countable) A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.

Every niche was filled by a funeral urn, and by marble shapes that bent down in a pale eternity of sorrow.

意味（4）

(metaphysical) The remainder of time that elapses after death.

意味（5）

(informal, hyperbolic) A comparatively long time.

It's been an eternity since we last saw each other.

eternities （ plural ）