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aeviternal

aeviternal adjective: pertaining to aeviternity, a state between eternity, which is unchanging and outside of time, and temporality, which is subject to change and to death or annihilation. Things aeviternal are creations, like the temporal, but everlasting, like the eternal.

Adjective

aeviternal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to aeviternity, a state between eternity, which is unchanging and outside of time, and temporality, which is subject to change and to death or annihilation. Things aeviternal are creations, like the temporal, but everlasting, like the eternal.
    • Further, if there is no before and after in aeviternity, it follows that in aeviternal things there is no difference between being, having been, or going to be. Since then it is impossible for aeviternal things not to have been, it follows that it is impossible for them not to be in the future...1862, (St. Thomas Aquinas), Summa Theologica - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 78
    • In aeviternal rhythms the current of time would be channeled in the cosmos, reflecting not only the pulsation of life within the microcosm, but with it also the possibility of realization, in samadhi, of timelessness.1992, Stella Kramrisch, The Presence of Siva, →ISBN, page 268

Examples of aeviternal in a sentence

  • Further, if there is no before and after in aeviternity, it follows that in aeviternal things there is no difference between being, having been, or going to be.1862, (St. Thomas Aquinas), Summa Theologica - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 78:
  • It is hard because it is very difficult to convert our thinking from the physical to the spiritual; from time to aeviternal and more so to eternity.2014, Justin Nnaemeka Onyeukaziri, Echoes of the Good News, →ISBN, page 93:

Questions about aeviternal

What does aeviternal mean?
Aeviternal means pertaining to aeviternity, a state between eternity, which is unchanging and outside of time, and temporality, which is subject to change and to death or annihilation. Things aeviternal are creations, like the temporal, but everlasting, like the eternal.
How do you use aeviternal in a sentence?
Further, if there is no before and after in aeviternity, it follows that in aeviternal things there is no difference between being, having been, or going to be.
What part of speech is aeviternal?
Aeviternal is an adjective.

Words near aeviternal in the dictionary

  1. aettir
  2. aetts
  3. AETX
  4. AEV
  5. aeval
  6. aeviternal
  7. aeviternities
  8. aeviternity
  9. AEVs
  10. aevum
  11. AEW

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