Supereternal

Quick meaning: Supereternal is an adjective meaning (rare) Properly everlasting or eternal; being in a state whose total existence is wholly unaffected by and independent of time itself.

Meaning

(rare) Properly everlasting or eternal; being in a state whose total existence is wholly unaffected by and independent of time itself.

Example Sentences

He is the primeval, the eternal, some say the supereternal, and all creatures are merely temporal and passing.

The Absolute is above eternity; it is infinitude. Hence there must be a mediating something between the supereternal and the subeternal.

Nay, even although the world had no beginning, it would not be coeternal with God. For, God is supereternal (superaeternitas); the pure intelligences, including the intellectus agens, are eternal; the heavenly bodies had a beginning, but will have no end; terrestrial substances alone exist in time.

Word Forms

• super-eternal

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include everlasting, eternal, unending, permanent, undeadly, beginningless.

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