supereternal
English
Alternative forms
- super-eternal
Etymology
super- + eternal
Adjective
supereternal (not comparable)
- (rare) Properly everlasting or eternal; being in a state whose total existence is wholly unaffected by and independent of time itself.
- 1901, Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia, Funk & Wagnalls, page 13894:
- The Absolute is above eternity; it is infinitude. Hence there must be a mediating something between the supereternal and the subeternal.
- 1909, Maurice de Wolfe, History of Mediaeval Philosophy, Longmans, page 401:
- Nay, even although the world had no beginning, it would not be coeternal with God. For, God is supereternal (superaeternitas); the pure intelligences, including the intellectus agens, are eternal; the heavenly bodies had a beginning, but will have no end; terrestrial substances alone exist in time.
- 1927, International Congress of Philosophy, Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Philosophy, Longmans, Green, page 599:
- He is the primeval, the eternal, some say the supereternal, and all creatures are merely temporal and passing.