immortality

What it means

1. The condition of being immortal.
   1. countableuncountablebiologyNever dying

      In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.

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      In the little, as in the great things of life, are to be found the type and sign of our immortality. Every hope that looks forward is pledge of the hereafter to which it refers. Who rests content with the present? None. We have all deep within us a craving for the future.

      1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Marriage Morning”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 201

      His one desire was to become the father of a man like himself, and it held him with a grip he only partially understood, for it was the first great desire, the first great passion of his life. Falling in love was a mere physical triviality, like warm sun or cool water, beside this divine hope of immortality: "I continue."

      1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 4

      Synonyms: undeadliness

   2. countableuncountablebiologyBeing remembered forever

      You have to salute Gerrard's bravery in accepting the challenge of trying to turn Rangers around given that he has zero experience in senior management. Immortality beckons if he does it.

      2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport

In a sentence

In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.

Where it comes from

1. Latinimmortālitās
2. Old Frenchimmortalité
3. Middle Englishimmortalitee
4. Englishimmortality

From Middle English immortalitee, immortalite, from Old French immortalité, from Latin immortālitās. Morphologically immortal + -ity.