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agelessness
age·less A0137600 (āj′lĭs)adj.1. Seeming never to grow old or to show the effects of time: "Our sporting heroes often strike us as ageless. We remember them in their prime, their faces unblemished" (Neal Bascomb).2. Existing forever; eternal: "He was merely a participant in some ageless ritual that had preceded him by centuries" (Elizabeth Gilbert).
age′less·ly adv.age′less·ness n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | agelessness - the quality of being timeless and eternalimmutability, immutableness, fixity - the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species" |
Agelessness
AgelessnessSee also Immortality.Aggressiveness (See CONQUEST.)Endymionman kept immortally youthful through eternal sleep. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 91; Br. Lit.: “Endymion” in Harvey, 271]Gray, Dorianartist Basil Hallward’s “ideal of youth” remains young as his portrait ages. [Br. Lit.: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Magill I, 746–748]Grecian urnlovers depicted on it will be forever young. [Br. Poetry: Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”]Little Orphan Annieteenage heroine who has not aged since strip started (1938). [Comics: “Little Orphan Annie” in Horn, 459]agelessness
Words related to agelessnessnoun the quality of being timeless and eternalRelated Words- immutability
- immutableness
- fixity
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