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immortality

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˌɪmɔːˈtæləti/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/
  • CMU ARPABET: IH2 M AO0 R T AE1 L IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The condition of being immortal.

Never dying

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, human-sciences, lifestyle, mysticism, mythology, natural-sciences, philosophy, religion, sciences

Examples

  • In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The condition of being immortal.

Being remembered forever

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, human-sciences, lifestyle, mysticism, mythology, natural-sciences, philosophy, religion, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the quality or state of being immortal

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: mortality

Broader terms: permanence, permanency

4

noun

Meaning 4

perpetual life after death

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: afterlife, hereafter

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: خُلُود (ḵulūd) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Armenian: անմահություն (anmahutʻyun) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Asturian: inmortalidá — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Azerbaijani: ölməzlik — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Azerbaijani: ölümsüzlük — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Belarusian: бессмяро́тнаць (bjessmjarótnacʹ) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Bulgarian: безсмъ́ртие (bezsmǎ́rtie) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Catalan: immortalitat — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Chichewa: chamuyaya — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Chinese Mandarin: 不朽 (bùxiǔ) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Chinese Mandarin: 永生 (yǒngshēng) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Ngazidja Comorian: uhayati wa ɗaima — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Czech: nesmrtelnost — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Danish: udødelighed — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Dutch: onsterfelijkheid — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Esperanto: senmorteco — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Estonian: surematus — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Finnish: kuolemattomuus — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • French: immortalité — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Galician: inmortalidade — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Georgian: უკვდავება (uḳvdaveba) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • German: Unsterblichkeit — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌴𐌹 (undiwanei) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Greek: αθανασία (athanasía) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Ancient Greek: ἀθανασία (athanasía) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Hebrew: אלמות (almavet) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Hebrew: אלמלא (ilmalei) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Hebrew: אלמלי (ilmalei) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Hindi: चिरस्थायित्व (cirasthāyitva) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Hungarian: halhatatlanság — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Icelandic: ódauðleiki — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Italian: immortalità — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Japanese: 不老不死 (furōfushi) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Japanese: 不朽 (fukyū) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Japanese: 不死 (fushi) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Japanese: 永生 (eisei) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Korean: 불사신 (bulsasin) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Kyrgyz: өлбөстүк (ölböstük) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Kyrgyz: өлүмсүздүк (ölümsüzdük) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Latin: immortālitās — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Latvian: nemirstība — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Macedonian: бесмртност (besmrtnost) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Norwegian Bokmål: udødelighet — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Old English: undēadlīcnes — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Persian: نامیرایی (nāmīrāyī) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Polish: nieśmiertelność — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Portuguese: imortalidade — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Romanian: imortalitate — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Russian: бессме́ртие (bessmértije) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Russian: бессме́ртность (bessmértnostʹ) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Serbo-Croatian: бѐсмртно̄ст — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Serbo-Croatian: bèsmrtnōst — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Slovak: nesmrteľnosť — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Slovene: nesmrtnost — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Spanish: inmortalidad — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Swahili: hali ya kutokufa — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Swedish: odödlighet — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Tagalog: kawalang-kamatayan — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Thai: อมตภาพ (à-má-dtà-pâap) — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Turkish: ölümsüzlük — condition of not being susceptible to death
  • Ukrainian: безсме́ртя (bezsmértja) — condition of not being susceptible to death
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