Immortalness

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The condition of being exempt from death and existing without any end, an enduring quality beyond the reach of mortality
2. The state of never ceasing to exist, a boundless permanence that death can never claim
3. Freedom from mortality, the quality of living on forever without any prospect of dying

Etymology: "Immortalness" is a plain formation: the adjective "immortal" with the suffix "-ness," which turns an adjective into a noun for the quality it describes. "Immortal" itself comes from Latin "immortalis," built from the negating prefix "in-" ("not") and "mortalis" ("mortal," from "mors," "death"), so the whole word means something like "not subject to death." Adding "-ness" to it, as English has long done with countless adjectives, gives a noun meaning the state or condition of being immortal. Because "-ness" is a productive English suffix, "immortalness" is a transparent coinage that needed no special invention. Its sense follows directly from its parts, and it is used with the same meaning as the more common "immortality."

Synonyms: immortality, deathlessness

Antonyms: mortality