Meanings
plural timelessnesses
- uncountableusuallyThe property of being timeless.
Of all the things that attracted her to the park, the timelessness of the ever-flowing river was most pleasing.
2 more examples
A sense of timelessness prevails in the little Derbyshire village of Repton, which was once the capital of the Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 332, photo captionIn the Larghetto slow movement Mr. Tetzlaff played the wistful melodic phrases with arching lyricism and radiantly penetrating pianissimos, while in the orchestra Mr. Levine achieved an uncanny balance between timelessness and subdued intensity.
2007 January 16, Anthony Tommasini, “Serious German Violinist Gets a Rock Star Ovation”, in The New York TimesSynonyms: atemporality, extratemporality, eternal now, eternity, untime
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe property of being timeless.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish ajattomuus
- ajattomuusproperty of being timeless
German Zeitlosigkeit
- Zeitlosigkeitproperty of being timeless
Hungarian időtlenség
- időtlenségproperty of being timeless
Polish ponadczasowość, bezczasowość
- ponadczasowośćproperty of being timeless
- bezczasowośćproperty of being timeless
- pozaczasowośćproperty of being timeless
Swedish tidlöshet
- tidlöshetproperty of being timeless
Cite this entry
timelessness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/timelessness
“timelessness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/timelessness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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