Immortality
noun
Living forever, never dying or decaying.
Many cultures believe in the immortality of the soul.
Often appears as...
- gain immortality
- achieve immortality
noun
Enduring fame lasting through all time.
His work gave him a certain kind of immortality in the art world.
Often appears as...
- achieve immortality
- find immortality
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Approving
noun
A never ending existence, as a spiritual being after death.
In many religions, followers are promised immortality after death.
Often appears as...
- promise immortality
- believe in immortality
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Colloquial
noun
Living forever, never dying or decaying.
Many cultures believe in the immortality of the soul.
Often appears as...
- gain immortality
- achieve immortality
noun
Enduring fame lasting through all time.
His work gave him a certain kind of immortality in the art world.
Often appears as...
- achieve immortality
- find immortality
Usage tips
Approving
noun
A never ending existence, as a spiritual being after death.
In many religions, followers are promised immortality after death.
Often appears as...
- promise immortality
- believe in immortality
Usage tips
Colloquial
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Pro Tip 1/3Literal Forever
Relates to the literal idea of living with no end, often found in myths or fantasies.
Vampires are frequently depicted as creatures of immortality.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Aging
Highlights the aspect of staying forever young, common in fictional stories.
He drank from the Fountain of Youth and achieved immortality.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Usage
Sometimes used figuratively to mean something will never be forgotten.
Their heroic act guaranteed their immortality in the history books.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Forever
Relates to the literal idea of living with no end, often found in myths or fantasies.
Vampires are frequently depicted as creatures of immortality.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Aging
Highlights the aspect of staying forever young, common in fictional stories.
He drank from the Fountain of Youth and achieved immortality.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Usage
Sometimes used figuratively to mean something will never be forgotten.
Their heroic act guaranteed their immortality in the history books.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Forever
Relates to the literal idea of living with no end, often found in myths or fantasies.
Vampires are frequently depicted as creatures of immortality.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Aging
Highlights the aspect of staying forever young, common in fictional stories.
He drank from the Fountain of Youth and achieved immortality.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Usage
Sometimes used figuratively to mean something will never be forgotten.
Their heroic act guaranteed their immortality in the history books.
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Seven Superpowered...
they only swim about two miles per hour and they only grow up to one centimeter every year which is half the growth rate of mount everest yeah a literal mountain grows faster than the greenland shark so it's really hard to imagine what doesn't grow faster than the greenland shark all this slow and prolonged life history gives them the power of immortality kind
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The deadly irony of...
were trying to create a potion for immortality. Instead, what they created was a flammable powder that burned down many of their homes. They quickly realized that this black powder, which they called fire medicine, was precisely the opposite of something that would make you live forever. In these early days,
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If superpowers were...
Scars. After all, immortality doesn't automatically translate to invincibility, it just means you cannot die. But it doesn't guarantee what condition you'll be alive in. Look at your body and count how many scars you have. If you have made this many permanent scars within your life,
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How a Woman's Donated...
repeated by professors was that look these are you know these were humans and these were people and they gave their bodies to us so we have to be respectful don't really there's sort of a sense of immortality did she care about that I honestly don't think she cared about the
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The incredible history...
to securing his historical legacy because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign,
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The 4 stories we tell...
is called terror management theory, and the idea is simple. It's just this. We develop our worldviews, that is, the stories we tell ourselves about the world and our place in it, in order to help us manage the terror of death. And these immortality stories
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Is there any truth to...
to reflect the concerns of his chroniclers and their audiences. And we’re still rewriting and adapting the legend today. Whether or not the man ever lived, loved, reigned, or adventured, it’s undeniable that the character has achieved immortality.
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Paul Gilding: The Earth...
like, what do we want to be when we grow up, when we move past this bumbling adolescence where we think there are no limits and suffer delusions of immortality? Well it's time to grow up, to be wiser, to be calmer, to be more considered.
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Sleep is your superpower...
Sleep is a nonnegotiable biological necessity. It is your life-support system, and it is Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality. And the decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations
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The Mummification of...
Mummification is an incredible process of drying out and embalming the body to preserve it, ready for its journey to immortality in the afterlife. Key to it all was the preparation of the body.
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Seven Superpowered...
they only swim about two miles per hour and they only grow up to one centimeter every year which is half the growth rate of mount everest yeah a literal mountain grows faster than the greenland shark so it's really hard to imagine what doesn't grow faster than the greenland shark all this slow and prolonged life history gives them the power of immortality kind
Video examples
The deadly irony of...
were trying to create a potion for immortality. Instead, what they created was a flammable powder that burned down many of their homes. They quickly realized that this black powder, which they called fire medicine, was precisely the opposite of something that would make you live forever. In these early days,
Video examples
If superpowers were...
Scars. After all, immortality doesn't automatically translate to invincibility, it just means you cannot die. But it doesn't guarantee what condition you'll be alive in. Look at your body and count how many scars you have. If you have made this many permanent scars within your life,
Video examples
How a Woman's Donated...
repeated by professors was that look these are you know these were humans and these were people and they gave their bodies to us so we have to be respectful don't really there's sort of a sense of immortality did she care about that I honestly don't think she cared about the
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The incredible history...
to securing his historical legacy because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign,
Video examples
The 4 stories we tell...
is called terror management theory, and the idea is simple. It's just this. We develop our worldviews, that is, the stories we tell ourselves about the world and our place in it, in order to help us manage the terror of death. And these immortality stories
Video examples
Is there any truth to...
to reflect the concerns of his chroniclers and their audiences. And we’re still rewriting and adapting the legend today. Whether or not the man ever lived, loved, reigned, or adventured, it’s undeniable that the character has achieved immortality.
Video examples
Paul Gilding: The Earth...
like, what do we want to be when we grow up, when we move past this bumbling adolescence where we think there are no limits and suffer delusions of immortality? Well it's time to grow up, to be wiser, to be calmer, to be more considered.
Video examples
Sleep is your superpower...
Sleep is a nonnegotiable biological necessity. It is your life-support system, and it is Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality. And the decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations
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The Mummification of...
Mummification is an incredible process of drying out and embalming the body to preserve it, ready for its journey to immortality in the afterlife. Key to it all was the preparation of the body.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
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Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!
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Norman Cousins
American Author
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Bruce Lee
American Actor
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
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Emily Dickinson
American Poet
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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Stephen King
Author
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.
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Charles Spurgeon
British Clergyman
Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!
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Norman Cousins
American Author
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Bruce Lee
American Actor
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
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Emily Dickinson
American Poet
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
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Stephen King
Author
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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