immortality

[ im-awr-tal-i-tee ]

/ ˌɪm ɔrˈtæl ɪ ti /

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noun

immortal condition or quality; unending life.

enduring fame.

Nearby words

immoralism, immoralist, immorality, immoralize, immortal, immortality, immortalization, immortalize, immortals, immortelle, immotile

Origin of immortality

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

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Did the screenwriters know they were dancing with immortality when they wrote these lines?
What Was Bogey Thinking When He Said ‘Here’s Looking At You, Kid’?|Lewis Beale|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But, no matter how the Court decides, McCutcheon has already secured a certain share of immortality.
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Despite their differences, all these men seem to want the kind of immortality that comes from infamy.
The Army Life, Mundane and Hideously Violent, by Turns|Brian Van Reet|August 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Adam Gollner, author of The Book of Immortality, profiles five billionaires pouring money into longevity research.
The Immortality Financiers: The Billionaires Who Want to Live Forever|Adam Leith Gollner|August 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Deng quickly decked the assailant, achieving her own bit of YouTube immortality.
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Jimmie thought for sure he must be dead; he lay wondering, was this immortality?
Jimmie Higgins|Upton Sinclair
For him the struggle of life resolves itself into a romantic game, with immortality as its conclusion.
Personality in Literature|Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
It was like the Hesperides of Greek mythology, the western islands where grew the golden apples of immortality.
The Book of Hallowe'en|Ruth Edna Kelley
What the dogma of immortality was to me I have already described, and with regard to God I was no better.
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford|Mark Rutherford
Pictures are everywhere presented which reproduced on canvass would insure the immortality of any artist.
The Beauties of the State of Washington|Harry F. Giles

Word Origin and History for immortality

immortality

mid-14c., "deathlessness," from Old French immortalité (13c.) and directly from Latin immortalitatem (nominative immortalitas) "deathlessness, endless life," from immortalis (see immortal). Sense of "everlasting fame" is from 1530s.

immortality

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