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Definitions: Immortality |
ImmortalityNoun1. The quality or state of being immortal. 2. Perpetual life after death. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "immortality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Satire | IMMORTALITY, n. A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for. G.J. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Bible | Immortality perpetuity of existence. The doctrine of immortality is taught in the Old Testament. It is plainly implied in the writings of Moses (Gen. 5:22, 24; 25:8; 37:35; 47:9; 49:29, comp. Heb. 11:13-16; Ex. 3:6, comp. Matt. 22:23). It is more clearly and fully taught in the later books (Isa. 14:9; Ps. 17:15; 49:15; 73:24). It was thus a doctrine obviously well known to the Jews. With the full revelation of the gospel this doctrine was "brought to light" (2 Tim. 1:10; 1 Cor. 15; 2 Cor. 5:1-6; 1 Thess. 4:13-18). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Jacques Cousteau, in the preface to his book The Ocean World, expressed his meditations on physical immortality, as a part of life and its adaptive processes: 'Death', Cousteau states, 'is fundamental to evolution;' and 'evolution is fundamental to survival'. He concludes that, biological speaking, 'immortality does not present a possible means to avoid death': "Mortal or immortal, [an organism] must die."
Spiritual Immortality, on the other hand, is a belief that is expressed in nearly every religious tradition. In both Western and Eastern religions, the spirit is an energy or force that transcends the mortal shell, and returns to either the heavens or the cycle of life, directly or indirectly depending on the tradition.
Medical science, it is believed may extend human life, and some, like Cousteau, believe that biological forms have inherent limitations to their design; primarily their fragility, and inability to immediately morph to fit the environment. The way around Cousteau's predicament, may someday present itself in the ability to "exist" outside of the biological form. Technological immortality is a concept which postulates that the biological nature of humanity is only temporary; should technology permit, people may circumvent death and evolution, simply by taking artificial forms. Conceivably this could reach a point in which physical danger is nullified or nearly-nullified.
Would this strange new serum be good news? Not at all, since unending biological functioning is not what is at issue in immortality. Ultimately, what one desires is some sort of permanent preservation of personal identity, not just unceasing metabolic integrity.
Second, even if the eager engineer were to modify his machine (due to popular demand) so as to configure all the neural pathways of Jones* to match Jones, this would still present problems. Jones does not want a perfect duplicate to exit the machine at the second trip, but Jones himself wants to exit the machine. Granted, if all were done discretely, Jones' wife, Jones' mistress, and Jones' poker buddies would think that Jones* was Jones, and even Jones* himself might think he was Jones, but thinking that such-n-such is true is hardly a guarantee that such-n-such really is true, as any jilted lover can attest.
Third, the Jones/Jones* problem is at issue in religious accounts of resurrection. Since humans share substantial quanta of their atoms with others who have preceded them in history (i.e., coffins leak, eventually, and nature cycles the organic material back through the biosphere), any resurrection cannot use all the original atomic collection for each individual to be resurrected. New material would be required; thus, worries about a duplicate thinking that s/he was the original person arise for the pious as well as for the pagan.
Apparently, on any account where immortality requires a remanufacture of a body in order to maintain character identity, seemingly insurmountable difficulties present themselves. Some views of quantum immortality approach the general issue of immortality differently.
Some extropian futurists propose that, thanks to exponentially accelerating computing power, it will someday be possible to "upload" human consciousness onto a computer system, and live indefinitely in a virtual environment. This could be accomplished via advanced cybernetics, where computer hardware would initially be installed in the brain to help sort memory or accelerate thought processes. Gradually more and more components would be added until the person's entire brain functions were handled by artificial devices, without any sharp transitions that would lead to identity issues as mentioned above. At this point, the human body would become only an accessory and the mind could be transferred to any sufficiently powerful computer. A person in this state would then be essentially immortal, short of cataclysmic destruction of the entire civilization and their computers.Types of immortality
Quantum immortality is the name for the speculation that the Everett many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that a conscious being cannot cease to be. The idea is highly controversial. Suppose a physicist detonates a nuclear bomb next to him. In almost all parallel universes, the nuclear explosion would vaporize the physicist. However, there is a small set of alternate universes in which the physicist somehow survives. The idea behind quantum immortality is that the physicist would only be able to experience the universes in which he survives, even though they may be a small subset of the possible universes. In this way, the physicist would appear from his own standpoint to be living foreverConcepts of immortality
Considerations of immortality usually bring to mind the idea of unending existence, a freedom from the concerns of annihilation and death. Often times, talk of the immortality of the soul arises in conjunction with talk of immortality. The ideas of science and religion find common goals in the perpetuity of man's existence. Unending existence is too simple a condition for immortality
As a thought experiment, suppose a doctor relates to his patient that a strange new serum has been discovered. Upon taking this serum, all of the standard biological processes which lead to aging are cured: (1) The effects of reaching the end of a finite turnover of cells are no longer noted in the patient, (2) Chromosomal aberrations cease, thus eliminating copying errors when cells duplicate, and; (3) the accumulation of metabolic, inadvertently destructive or post-translational errors from cell division (along with waste products) no longer occur. The only side effect, unfortunately, is that it uses the full gamut of sodium, potassium, and calcium ions in the patient's brain to jump-start the serum process; the brain is destroyed instantly. The freedom from concerns of annihilation and death is insufficient for immortality
Essential to many of the world's religions is a doctrine of an eternal afterlife. But well known narratives from Christianity and Islam show why freedom from annihilation and death could (in principle) not be desirable:
Instances from other religions could be adduced. Mere perpetual existence is not enough. Ultimately, one desires that this existence be of a desirable quality.
When talk of a "soul" arises
When talk of a "soul" arises, immediately, concerns of psychology and metaphysics become relevant. Suppose, as yet, another thought experiment:
The engineer has not done Jones a favor, even if Jones could, as it were, "wash, rinse, and repeat" this whole cycle indefinitely. First off, it is anything but clear that the human exiting the machine at the second trip is Jones. Perhaps he is better labeled, Jones*. Presuming that memory is a physiological structure encoded by neural pathways, Jones* would not preserve the memory of Jones, since Jones* would not have the encoded neural pathways of an 80-year-old, but only of a 30-year-old. Hence, all that Jones was (after 30, anyway) as the collection of memory experiences upon second entry into the device is lost; thus, Jones is effectively dead. Immortality would offer little if the best results obtainable were a recurring coda of temporal duplicates.
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| Antonym: mortality (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Perpetuity | Noun: perpetuity, eternity, everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia; interminability, agelessness, everlastingness; Adjective: perpetuation; continued existence, uninterrupted existence; perennity; permanence (durability). |
Repute | Memory, posthumous fame, niche in the temple of fame; immortality, immortal name; magni nominis umbra. |
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Crosswords: Immortality |
| English words defined with "immortality": Alcides, Amrita ♦ exchange ♦ Heracles, Herakles, Hercules ♦ Immortalist, Immortalities, Innate ideas ♦ Jainism ♦ Phenix. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "immortality": Dunmow ♦ Hercules' Choice ♦ MacFlecknoe ♦ Restorationists ♦ scarabaeus, soul, story, Swarga. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "immortality": Immortalist ♦ tansy. (references) |
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Screenplays | There is no immortality but a tree's love. (The Last Unicorn; writing credit: Peter S. Beagle) There's no sacrifice too great for a chance at immortality. (In a Lonely Place; writing credit: Dorothy B. Hughes; Edmund H. North) To immortality. (The Phantom of the Opera; writing credit: Gerry O'Hara) Immortality isn't everything the preachers rack it up to be. (Tuck Everlasting; writing credit: Jeffrey Lieber) But, beware: the Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal, for that is the boundry, and the price, of immortality. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles) | |
Clever | A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Inc. Immortality (1969) Or The Path to Immortality Sinhasta (1968) Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2003) Immortality (1991) | |
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Arthur Schopenhauer | To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake. |
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel | Literature is the immortality of speech. |
Emily Dickinson | I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. |
James F. Byrnes | The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. |
Jean Paul Richter | Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. |
Pindar | A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. |
Stanislaw J. Lec | The first requisite for immortality is death. |
Virgil | Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Legends and chimeras are given them to swallow, about the soul, immortality, paradise, and the stars. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There needs no stronger proof of immortality. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
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John Walsh | Death is death, but the death of a child is something that nobody is prepared for. I think that we are genetically programmed to believe that our children are our immortality. You don't bury your children, they bury you. |
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| "Immortality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.79% of the time. "Immortality" is used about 165 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.79% | 163 | 24,498 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.21% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 165 | N/A |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
immortality | 103 |
beverage hindu immortality | 26 |
physical immortality | 21 |
device immortality | 14 |
immortality lyrics | 12 |
quest for immortality | 10 |
immortality intimation ode | 9 |
immortality ring | 9 |
immortality incarnation | 8 |
celine dion immortality | 7 |
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| Language | Translations for "immortality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pavdekësi, përjetësi (aeon, Eon, eternity, everlasting, forever, perpetuity). (various references) | |
Arabic | تعمير (immortalization, longevity), سرمدية (eternity), خلود (continuance, eternity, perpetuity), بقاء (biding, date, duration, endurance, existence, permanence, subsistence, survival). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безсмъртие (eternity). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不朽 (immortal). (various references) | |
Czech | vìènost (aeon, age, beyond, Eon, eternity, perpetuity), nesmrtelnost. (various references) | |
Danish | immortalitet, udødelighed. (various references) | |
Dutch | immortaliteit, onsterfelýkheid. (various references) | |
Farsi | ابدیت (Aeon, Eternity). (various references) | |
Finnish | syöpäsolujen kuolemattomuus. (various references) | |
French | immortalité. (various references) | |
German | unsterblichkeit (deathlessness), unvergänglichkeit (everlastingness, imperishability). (various references) | |
Greek | αθανασία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | צח (aeon, endurance, eternity, forever, perpetuity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | halhatatlanság. (various references) | |
Italian | immortalit (exempt). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不朽 (eternal, everlasting, immortal, imperishable). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふきゅう (deterioration, diffusion, eternal, everlasting, immortal, imperishable, in no hurry, nonessential, rot, spread), ふま (permanence), ふじみ (insensibility to pain, invulnerability), ふし (eternal life, father and child, gallnut, joint, knuckle, melody, tune), むきゅう (eternity, infinitude, nonsalaried, nonstop, unpaid, without a holiday), と"しえ (eternity, perpetuity), とわ (eternity, perpetuity), えいきゅう (eternity, perpetuity), えいせい (eternal life, eternity, health, hygiene, medical, permanence, perpetuity, sanitation, satellite), えいえ" (eternity, permanence, perpetuity). (various references) | |
Korean | 불사 (Immortalities). (various references) | |
Manx | sheerid (constancy, continuity, deathlessness, duration, endlessness, permanence), neuvarvaanys (deathlessness), beaynid (durability, eternity, infinity, permanence, steadfastness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | udødelighet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immortalityay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imortal (deathless, eternal, impermanent, never-fading, undying). (various references) | |
Romanian | imortalitate, nemurire. (various references) | |
Russian | бессмертие. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | besmrtnost. (various references) | |
Spanish | inmortalidad. (various references) | |
Swedish | odödlighet (eternity). (various references) | |
Turkish | ebedilik (eternity), ölümsüzlük (athanasia, eternity). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вічність (aeon, eternity, everlasting, forever, perpetuity), безсмертя (eternity), безсмертність. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính bất tử (deathlessness), tính bất hủ, tính bất diệt (deathlessness, eternality, sempiternity), sự sống mãi danh tiếng đời đời, danh tiếng muôn thuở. (various references) | |
Welsh | anfarwoldeb. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | athanasia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aeternitatem, aeternitatis, inmortalitas, inmortalitate, inmortalitatem, inmortalitatis. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ameretatâtem. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 2, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | ToiV men kaq upomonhn ergou agaqou doxan kai timhn kai afqarsian zhtousin zwhn aiwnion |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | His quidem qui secundum patientiam boni operis gloriam et honorem et incorruptionem quaerentibus vitam aeternam |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Þam þe þurhwuniað on godnesse for to secanne tir, are and undeadlignes sceal he leanian ece lif. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Sotheli to hem that ben bi pacience of good werk, glorie, and onour, and vncorrupcioun, to hem that seken euerlastynge lijf; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | That is to saye prayse honoure and immortalite to them which cotinue in good doynge and seke eternall lyfe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | To them who by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honor, and immortality; eternal life: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life: |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 2, Verse 7 |
| Bulgarian | а слава и почест и мир на всеки, който прави добро, първо на юдеина, после и на гърка. |
| Cebuano | kanila nga uban sa pailub diha sa mga maayong pagbuhat, nagapangita sa himaya ug sa kadungganan ug sa pagkadili mamatay, kanila magahatag siyag kinabuhi nga dayon; |
| Chinese | 凡 恆 心 行 善 、 尋 求 榮 耀 尊 貴 、 ' 不 能 朽 壞 之 福 的 、 就 以 永 " 應 他 們 ． |
| Croatian | onima koji postojanošæu u dobrim djelima ištu slavu, èast i neraspadljivost - život vjeèni; |
| Danish | dem, som med Udholdenhed i god Gerning søge Ære og Hæder og Uforkrænkelighed, et evigt Liv; |
| Dutch | Dengenen wel, die met volharding in goeddoen, heerlijkheid, en eer, en onverderfelijkheid zoeken, het eeuwige leven; |
| Finnish | niille, jotka hyvässä työssä kestävinä etsivät kirkkautta ja kunniaa ja katoamattomuutta, iankaikkisen elämän, |
| French | réservant la vie éternelle ceux qui, par la persévérance bien faire, cherchent l`honneur, la gloire et l`immortalité; |
| German | Preis und Ehre und unvergängliches Wesen denen, die mit Geduld in guten Werken trachten nach dem ewigen Leben; |
| Haitian Creole | Moun ki pa janm sispann fè byen, k'ap chache lwanj ak respè, k'ap chache mwayen pou yo pa janm mouri, moun sa yo va resevwa lavi ki p'ap janm fini an. |
| Hungarian | Azoknak, a kik a jó cselekedetben való állhatatossággal dicsõséget, tisztességet és halhatatlanságot keresnek, örök élettel; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Allah memberikan hidup sejati dan kekal kepada mereka yang tekun berbuat baik untuk mendapatkan yang mulia, yang terhormat dan yang abadi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | yaitu hidup yang kekal untuk orang yang mencari kemuliaan dan kehormatan dan peri yang tiada berkebinasaan di dalam berbuat baik dengan tekunnya; |
| Italian | la vita eterna a coloro che perseverando nelle opere di bene cercano gloria, onore e incorruttibilit ; |
| Korean | 참 을 행 하 여 영 광 과 존 귀 와 썩 지 아 니 함 을 구 하 " 자 에 게 " 영 생 으 로 하 시 |
| Latvian | Tiem, kas, pacietîbâ labus darbus darîdami, meklç svçtlaimîbu un godu, un neiznîcîbu, - ar mûþîgo dzîvi, |
| Maori | Ki te hunga e whai ana ki te kororia, ki te honore, ki te piraukore, me te mau ano ki te mahi pai, he ora tonu: |
| Modern Greek | εις μεν τους ζητουντας δι' υπομονης εργου αγαθου, δοξαν και τιμην και αφθαρσιαν ζωην αιωνιον, |
| Norwegian | dem som med utholdenhet i god gjerning søker herlighet og ære og uforgjengelighet, skal han gi evig liv, |
| Portuguese | a saber: a vida eterna aos que, com perseverança em favor o bem, procuram glória, e honra e incorrupção; |
| Rumanian | Wi anume, va da viaya vecinicq celor ce, prin stqruinya kn bine, cautq slava, cinstea wi nemurirea; |
| Russian | ФЕН, ЛПФПТЩЕ ПУФПСОУФЧПН Ч "П'ТПН "ЕМЕ ЙЭХФ УМБЧЩ, ЮЕУФЙ Й 'ЕУУНЕТФЙС, --ЦЙЪОШ ЧЕЮОХА; |
| Shuar | Shuar tuke pénker Túrak Ashí shiira nunasha tura tuke amuukachmin ainia nunasha wakeruiniana nuna Yus tuke iwiaaku Niijiai shiir pujustinian Súsartatui. |
| Spanish | vida eterna a los que por su perseverancia en las buenas obras buscan gloria, honra e incorrupción; |
| Swahili | Wale wanaozingatia kutenda mema, kutafuta utukufu na heshima ya Mungu na kutokufa, watapata uzima wa milele. |
| Swedish | Evigt liv skall han giva åt dem som med uthållighet i att göra det goda söka härlighet och ära och oförgänglighet. |
| Thai | สำหรับคนที่พากเพียรทำความ"ี แสวงหาสง่าราศี เกียรติ และความเป็นอมตะนั้น พระองค์จะประทานชีวิตนิรัน"ร์ให้ |
| Ukrainian | тим, хто витривалістю в добрім ділі шука" слави, і чести, і нетління, життя вічне, |
| Uma | Ria tauna to tida mogau' lompe', apa' doko' mporata-ra pe'une', pebila' pai' katuwua' to uma ria ka'otia-na ngkai Alata'ala. Hi tauna to hewa toe Alata'ala mpowai' katuwua' to lompe' duu' kahae-hae-na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Immortality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amortality, immotility, imortality, inmortality. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "immortality" (pronounced i'môrta"lutē) |
| 9 | -m ô r t a" l u t ē | mortality. |
| 6 | -t a" l u t ē | brutality, centrality, fatality, hospitality, instrumentality, mentality, sentimentality, totality, vitality. |
| 5 | -a" l u t ē | abnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, causality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, illegality, immorality, impartiality, impersonality, individuality, informality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, modality, morality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, reality, sensuality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-m-m-o-r-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: immorality. | |
-2 letters: mortality. | |
-3 letters: imitator, immortal, limitary, military, molarity, morality, motility. | |
-4 letters: immoral, miliary, orality, tritoma. | |
-5 letters: airily, aliyot, artily, maloti, marmot, mitral, moirai, mortal, ramtil, rattly, rialto, tailor, tartly, trimly, trotyl, yttria. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 6D 6F 72 74 61 6C 69 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- -- --- .-. - .- .-.. .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m m o r t a l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 006D 006F 0072 0074 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4379798184866778758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Bible Trace 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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