eternalismn.
rare.
The condition of being eternal; an eternal character or nature.
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the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > eternalness
eternityc1374
incorruptibleness1398
eternalitya1400
perpetualty1435
perpetuity1455
incorruptibilitya1475
perdurance1508
perpetuality1543
perennity1597
sempiternity1599
eternness1606
perpetualness1611
indefectibility1624
alwayness1674
eternalness1727
indefeatabilitya1754
imperishability1813
imperishableness1818
timelessness1836
unfadingness1860
unendingness1881
eternalism1889
agelessness1893
achronism1902
1889 W. B. Carpenter Bampton Lect. Pref. xvii Religion gives a sort of Eternalism to Righteousness.
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1940 E. T. Bell Devel. Math. xxii. 510 Divested of its mythical raiment of eternalism, mathematics will then be recognized for what it has always been, a humanly constructed language.
b. Philosophy. The theory or belief that the universe is eternal, having no beginning or end.
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the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [noun] > theory that the world is eternal
eternalism1951
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [noun] > other theories and their adherents
Darwinian1807
panphenomenalism1871
eternalism1951
incorrigibilist1966
1951 R. M. Millard in Philos. Forum Spring 17 Whitehead would seem to have had a propensity for the eternalism or non-Temporalism which the major emphasis of his general metaphysical position should have caused him to reject.
1971 Internat. Jrnl. Middle East Stud. 2 67 If eternalism is tantamount to atheism, it is the argument from creation alone which can prove that God exists.
1989 Nature 23 Feb. 698/2 Newtonian eternalism, or huttonian uniformitarianism..are not alternatives to the slings and arrows of chaos and catastrophe.
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