Word.ws English Dictionary

eternalizing

eternalizing is the present participle and gerund of eternalize.

Meaning of eternalize

Verb

eternalize (third-person singular simple present eternalizes, present participle eternalizing, simple past and past participle eternalized)

  1. (transitive) To make eternal; to immortalize.
    • This occasions a flood of recollected sensory detail, Updike at his best, an eternalizing of the moment of that kiss which stands in defiance of age and decrepitude and the bone cancer winnowing Mamie in the prison of her reduced self.2009 June 7, T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Road Home”, in New York Times

Questions about eternalizing

What is eternalizing the present participle and gerund of?
Eternalizing is the present participle and gerund of eternalize.

Words near eternalizing in the dictionary

  1. eternalization
  2. eternalizations
  3. eternalize
  4. eternalized
  5. eternalizes
  6. eternalizing
  7. eternall
  8. eternally
  9. eternally collapsing object
  10. eternally collapsing objects
  11. eternalness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: eternalizing (page history and authors); eternalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “eternalizing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/eternalizing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.