sempiternal

Etymology

From Old French sempiternel, from Medieval Latin sempiternālis, from Latin sempiternus, a contraction of semperæternus, from semper (“always”) + æternus (“eternal”).

adj

  1. Everlasting, eternal.
    [I]n filmdom, the sempiternal question continues: Can a male and female actor be just ‘good friends’? 2 August 2008, Shivangi Singh, “A sneak-peek at ‘just friends’ of filmdom!”, in Zee News
  2. (philosophy) Everlasting, that is, having infinite temporal duration (as opposed to eternal: outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether).

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