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单词 sempiternal
释义
sempiternal
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adj

When something is sempiternal, it seems like it's been around forever, like the rise and fall of the tide on the beach, or your love of chocolate.
Sempiternal is useful for describing something endless, especially when you want to use an impressive word. Although it's often used the same way you'd use the word "eternal," in philosophy there is a distinction between those terms. "Eternal" implies something that is infinite outside the bounds of time, like God, while sempiternal is a more earthbound way to talk about forever. But you should feel free to tell your annoying little brother, "Your presence in my room feels sempiternal."
WORD FAMILY
sempiternal: sempiternally
USAGE EXAMPLES
At church, at the altar, there were vestments of gold and the climbing voices of a Mozart mass, tossing rings sempiternal.
Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory(1982)
Such disdain is trumped only by the sempiternal public contempt for Congress and car salesmen.
Economist(Oct 17, 2013)
The sempiternal nurdles, indestructible, swayed on and under the surface of the sea.
The Guardian(Mar 15, 2013)
adj having no known beginning and presumably no end
sempiternal truth
Syn
dateless, endless
infinite
having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude
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