aeon

Etymology

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Alternative spelling of eon
    When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,/ When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,/ We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,/Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew. 1892, Rudyard Kipling, When Earth's Last Picture is Painted (L’Envoi to 'The Seven Seas')
  2. (Gnosticism, preferred spelling, with æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
  3. (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.

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