Definition of Immortality

1. Noun. The quality or state of being immortal.

Generic synonyms: Permanence, Permanency
Derivative terms: Immortal
Antonyms: Mortality

2. Noun. Perpetual life after death.
Generic synonyms: Afterlife, Hereafter

Definition of Immortality

1. n. The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul.

Definition of Immortality

1. Noun. (fiction religion mythology biology) The condition of being immortal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immortality

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Literary usage of Immortality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The ancient Egyptian doctrine of immortality was based on the conflict of light with ... For the earlier doctrine of immortality of the ancient Semites, ..."

2. The World's Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the by John Henry Barrows (1893)
"BY PHILIP S. MOXOM, DD It is impossible, of course, within the limits of this brief paper, even to state the entire argument for the immortality of man. ..."

3. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1893)
"There is one thing in which almost all religions agree: this one common hope of all believers is the immortality of the soul. It should be better named the ..."

4. The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1900)
"CHAPTER XI THE immortality OF THE SOUL The Citadel of ... and Religion—Origin of the Belief in immortality— Christian ..."

5. The Contemporary Review (1872)
"MORALITY AND immortality. THE general result arrived at in my former paper on " Science and immortality," may be summed up as follows :— 1. ..."

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