athanasy
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Etymology[edit]
Ancient Greek ἀθανασία (athanasía, “immortality”).
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Noun[edit]
athanasy (uncountable)
- An absence of death or the condition of everlasting life.
- 1871, James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows:
- Is not a scholiastic athanasy better than none?
- 2014, Borja Aguiló Obrador, “The Nursery Glass and the Wild Moor”, in Research Challenges for Anglophone Studies in the 21st Century, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, page 88:
- Hughes's "Ghost Crabs" has at its core a similar morbid fascination for this invading natural athanasy that overflows the symbolic protections of the self.
Synonyms[edit]
- deathlessness; see also Thesaurus:immortality
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