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the longest possible time, slightly shortened by waiting for a microwave to finish.
means A state of infinite or endless time, often used to describe something that lasts forever or simply feels like it does.
from From Latin aeternitas, built on aeternus 'enduring, perpetual,' which compresses aevum 'age, lifetime, an unbroken stretch of time.' That aevum is an ancient root, a likely cousin of Greek aion (source of 'aeon') and even distantly related to English 'aye' meaning 'ever.' The word reached English in the late Middle Ages through Old French eternite, carrying its sense of time-without-end straight from the theologians who needed a word big enough for the afterlife.
- perfume name
- Calvin Klein bottled it in 1988
- physics math
- protons may outlast it, decaying after eternity-sized spans
- buddhist view
- reincarnation offers eternity on the installment plan
- heat death
- the universe ends cold, dark, and very, very late