Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Perpetuity (Endless duration)

Nouns
  • perpetuity, eternity, everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia
  • interminability, agelessness, everlastingness etc. adj.
  • perpetuation
  • continued existence, uninterrupted existence
  • perennity
  • permanence (durability) [Long duration.] Diuturnity.
Verbs
  • last forever, endure forever, go on forever
  • have no end. eternize, perpetuate.
Adjectives
  • perpetual, eternal
  • everduring, everlasting, ever-living, ever-flowing
  • continual, sempiternal
  • coeternal
  • endless, unending
  • ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing
  • endless, unending, interminable, having no end
  • unfading, evergreen, amaranthine
  • neverending, never-dying, never-fading
  • deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable.
Adverbs
  • perpetually etc. adj.
  • always, ever, evermore, aye
  • for ever, for aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for ever and ever
  • in all ages, from age to age
  • without end
  • world without end, time without end
  • to the end of time, to the crack of doom, to the 'last syllable of recorded time'" [Macbeth]
  • till doomsday
  • constantly etc. (very frequently) Frequency.
Phrases
  • but thou shall flourish in immortal youth" [Addison]
  • Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought" [Addison]
  • her immortal part with angels lives" [Romeo and Juliet]
  • [Goethe's motto]