immortality

UK/ˌɪmɔːˈtæləti/US/ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/

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Immortality is never dying, or being remembered for ever. Seek immortality, literary immortality, the immortality of the soul.

The second sense is the live one: writers and athletes are said to win immortality, meaning their names outlast them. A few animals come close to the literal version — one jellyfish can revert to an earlier stage of its life. The Latin means not mortal.

Definitions of immortality

1nounimmortalityNever dying, or being remembered for ever.B2+
“In the old story, the king searched the world for a drink that would give him immortality.”

immortality is a state of not dying.

Where it comes from

Latin immortalitas is in-, not, plus mortalis, mortal, from mors, death.

Proto-Indo-European
*mer-
Latin
immortālitās
Old French
immortalité
Middle English
immortalitee
English, today
immortality

From Middle English immortalitee, immortalite, from Old French immortalité, from Latin immortālitās. Morphologically immortal + ity.

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