immortality

immortality

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French immortalité, from Latin immortālitās.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɪmɔːˈtæləti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/

Noun

immortality (countable and uncountable, plural immortalities)

1. (religion, mythology, biology) The condition of being immortal.
   1. Never dying

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

   2. Being remembered forever
      • 2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport‎:

        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.

Synonyms

• undeadliness

Related terms

• immortal
• mortality

Translations

condition of not being susceptible to death

Armenian: անմահություն (hy) (anmahutʿyun) Asturian: inmortalidá f Bulgarian: безсмъртие (bg) n (bezsmǎrtie) Catalan: immortalitat (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 不朽 (zh) (bùxiǔ), 永生 (zh) (yǒngshēng) Czech: nesmrtelnost (cs) f Danish: udødelighed (da) c Dutch: onsterfelijkheid (nl) f Esperanto: senmorteco Finnish: kuolemattomuus (fi) French: immortalité (fr) f Galician: inmortalidade (gl) f Georgian: უკვდავება (uḳvdaveba) German: Unsterblichkeit (de) f Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌴𐌹 f (undiwanei) Greek: αθανασία (el) f (athanasía) Ancient Greek: ἀθανασία f (athanasía) Hebrew: אלמות‎ m (almavet), אלמלא‎ (he) (ilmalei), אלמלי‎ (he) (ilmalei) Hindi: चिरस्थायित्व m (cirasthāyitva)

Hungarian: halhatatlanság (hu) Icelandic: ódauðleiki m Italian: immortalità (it) f Japanese: 不老不死 (ふろうふし, furōfushi), 不朽 (ja) (ふきゅう, fukyū), 不死 (ja) (ふし, fushi), 永生 (えいせい, eisei) Korean: 불사신 (bulsasin) Ngazidja Comorian: uhayati wa ɗaima class 11 (uhayati wa daima) Norwegian: Bokmål: udødelighet (no) m or f Old English: undēadlīcnes f Polish: nieśmiertelność (pl) f Portuguese: imortalidade (pt) f Russian: бессме́ртие (ru) n (bessmértije), бессме́ртность (ru) f (bessmértnostʹ) (not common) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бѐсмртно̄ст f Roman: bèsmrtnōst (sh) f Spanish: inmortalidad f Swahili: hali ya kutokufa Swedish: odödlighet (sv) c Tagalog: kawalang-kamatayan Turkish: ölümsüzlük (tr)

See also

• elixir of life
• undead
• immortality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia