aeviternities

Noun

aeviternity (countable and uncountable, plural aeviternities)

1. Synonym of eternity (“existence without end”).
   • There [in the new heaven] shall we, indissolubly, with all the choir of heaven pass our eviternity of bliss, in lauding and praising the incomprehensibly-glorious Majesty of our Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier; in perpetual Hallelujahs to him that sits upon the throne.1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “[The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […].] Section VIII. The Re-union of the Body to the Soul, both...

   Synonyms:

   everlastingness, eternity

2. (Scholastic philosophy) Synonym of aevum (“the temporal mode of existence between time and eternity, said to be experienced by angels, saints, and celestial bodies (which medieval astronomy believed to be unchanging)”).
   • Further, if there is no before and after in æviternity, it follows that in æviternal things there is no difference between being, having been, or going to be. Since then it is impossible for æviternal things not to have been, it follows that it is impossible for them not to be in the future, which...1923, Thomas Aquinas, “Question X: The Eternity of God (in Six Articles)”, in fathers of the English Dominican Province [pseudonym; Laurence Shapcote], Daniel J. Sullivan, transl., The Summa...

   Synonyms:

   aevum