imperishable
/ɪmˈpɛrɪʃəb(ə)l
/adjective
Enduring forever: imperishable truths...
- But what is wonderful about him - what saves him, glorifies him and makes him special - is the imperishable cultural truth that you can take a Frenchman out of France but you cannot take France out of a Frenchman.
- The old rugged cross is not venerable because it is old - that is, because of a traditional or historical meaning - but because the truth it embodies is imperishable.
- So if unsatisfied desires are inherently painful, then happiness must be ‘a final satisfaction of the will, after which no fresh willing would occur,… an imperishable satisfaction of the will.’
Synonyms
enduring, everlasting, undying, deathless, immortal, timeless, ageless, perennial, lasting, long-lasting;
indestructible, inextinguishable, ineradicable, unfading, undiminished, permanent, never-ending, never dying, without end
rare sempiternal, perdurable
Derivatives
imperishability
/ noun ...- The more we face our limits, the more we have to relinquish our myth of personal specialness, unlimited potential, imperishability, and immunity to the laws of biological destiny.
- Even gold plates and drinking vessels conveyed something of their imperishability to one who dined from them.
- Because in this way the eternity and the imperishability of a mortal being are made manifest.
imperishableness
imperishably
/ adverb ...- This is a pity, because when she lets herself go - and not letting herself go is the secret of her success - she can be an electric screen presence, warm and soulful, imperishably sexy.
- Because Hanks, that imperishably decent leading man, the Jimmy Stewart of our day, is improbably trapped inside a villainous role.
- And even if that memory had not been etched imperishably into his heart and mind, he had no choice.