lasting so long or occurring so often as to become tedious; incessant
I cannot bear her everlasting complaints
noun
4.
endless duration; eternity
5. Also called: everlasting flower. another name for immortelle, See also cat's-foot
aeonian in American English
(iˈoʊniən)
adjective
lasting for eons; eternal
Word origin
Gr aiōnios: see eon
aeonian in American English
(iˈouniən)
adjective
eternal; everlasting
Also: eonian
Word origin
[1755–65; ‹ Gk aio᷇ni(os) (aio᷇naeon + -ios adj. suffix) + -an]This word is first recorded in the period 1755–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: affiliate, baroque, generalization, insurgent, lame duck-an is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Roman; urban) or persons (Augustan), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (American; Chicagoan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases (Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican) and membership in zoological taxa (acanthocephalan; crustacean). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” (Elizabethan; Jacobean) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian)