Eternal vs. Infinite

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  • Eternal (adjective)

    Lasting forever; unending.

    “agelong|endless|everlasting|permanent|sempiternal|unending|Thesaurus:eternal”

    “ephemeral|momentary|transient|Thesaurus:ephemeral”

  • Eternal (adjective)

    existing outside time; as opposed to sempiternal, existing within time but everlastingly

    “timeless|atemporal|Thesaurus:timeless”

  • Eternal (adjective)

    Exceedingly great or bad; used as an intensifier.

    “some eternal villain”

    “awful”

  • Eternal (noun)

    One who lives forever; an immortal.

  • Infinite (adjective)

    Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense. from 14th c.

  • Infinite (adjective)

    Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable. from 15th c.

  • Infinite (adjective)

    With plural noun: infinitely many. from 15th c.

  • Infinite (adjective)

    Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless. from 17th c.

  • Infinite (adjective)

    Having infinitely many elements.

  • Infinite (adjective)

    Not limited by person or number. from 19th c.

  • Infinite (adjective)

    Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.

  • Infinite (numeral)

    Infinitely many.

  • Infinite (noun)

    Something that is infinite in nature.

Wiktionary
  • Infinite (adjective)

    limitless or endless in space, extent, or size; impossible to measure or calculate

    “the infinite number of stars in the universe”

    “the infinite mercy of God”

  • Infinite (adjective)

    very great in amount or degree

    “he bathed the wound with infinite care”

  • Infinite (adjective)

    greater than any assignable quantity or countable number.

  • Infinite (adjective)

    (of a series) able to be continued indefinitely.

  • Infinite (adjective)

    another term for non-finite

  • Infinite (noun)

    a space or quantity that is infinite

    “beyond the infinite, the space traveller is transformed”

  • Infinite (noun)

    God

    “intimations of the infinite”

Oxford Dictionary
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