immortality

[im-awr-tal-i-tee]

noun

1. immortal condition or quality; unending life.

2. enduring fame.

Word History and Origins

Origin of immortality¹

1300–50; Middle English immortalite < Latin immortālitās. See immortal, -ity

Example Sentences

Here, in this room, we are 10 hammer curls away from immortality.

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His Mandarin translator then added: "With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality."

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Her Wendy is an arrow flying into dangerous places with a child’s delusions of immortality.

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One of the strategies is through a race to create immortality.

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With the TV series, we see three ways that these corporations have offered answers to the race for immortality.

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Related Words

• fame 
• glory 
• greatness 
• renown