IMMORTALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immortality mean? 

• IMMORTALITY (noun)
  The noun IMMORTALITY has 2 senses:

1. the quality or state of being immortal

2. perpetual life after death

  Familiarity information: IMMORTALITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMORTALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or state of being immortal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("immortality" is a kind of...):

permanence; permanency (the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration)

Antonym:

mortality (the quality or state of being mortal)

Derivation:

immortal (not subject to death)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perpetual life after death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("immortality" is a kind of...):

afterlife; hereafter (life after death)

 Context examples 

I talk of the instinct of life, which is to live, and which, when death looms near and large, masters the instinct, so called, of immortality.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

No man he had known, nor any woman, had given him the message of immortality.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Gladys of the mystic lake, now to be re-named the Central, for never shall she have immortality through me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Just think what will be his joy when he, too, is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have spiritual immortality.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

God was not a blind force, and immortality was not a pretty fable, but a blessed fact.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was very different when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand; but now the scene was changed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In half a minute Charles was at the bottom of Union Street again, and the other two proceeding together: and soon words enough had passed between them to decide their direction towards the comparatively quiet and retired gravel walk, where the power of conversation would make the present hour a blessing indeed, and prepare it for all the immortality which the happiest recollections of their own future lives could bestow.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You have talked of the instinct of immortality.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was color in her cheeks, and her eyes drew him again and again—the eyes in which he had first read immortality.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)