What's the difference between countless and eternity?

Countless


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
  • (2) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
  • (3) According to Newman, with whom Hislop has written TV series, a film and radio programmes, as well as countless jokes for Private Eye, his fogeyism is reflected in his attitude to sex.
  • (4) She had already passed the test: she made countless appearances between 2 February and 14 May, while her treatment was underway, and no one suspected a thing!
  • (5) Trevor Sinclair and Frédéric Kanouté scored, Tomas Repka gave away a penalty and Jermain Defoe missed countless chances.
  • (6) And there are countless white Britons who are unaware of the histories that bind us all together.
  • (7) This is a pattern of confusion, or deliberate deception, repeated in countless cases of missing persons who were later tracked down to Bagram.
  • (8) Legislators, third parties, physicians, and patients alike have spent countless hours in recent years searching for a way to contain rising medical costs.
  • (9) The text offers countless more examples in the same vein.
  • (10) Every month they delay its introduction, carmakers add to the 400,000 premature deaths, and countless respiratory, cardiac and other illnesses that result from air pollution in Europe.
  • (11) Yet he seems to have not just used his plane, but travelled with him on countless occasions and stayed on his luxury yacht.
  • (12) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
  • (13) The cytoplasm of the photoreceptor cells contains countless small Golgi fields, mitochondria, microtubules, multivesicular and multilamellar bodies.
  • (14) That stunner set the tone for a first round which did not follow the script that had been set by the countless mock drafts leading up to Thursday night.
  • (15) The umpteenth tragedy involving African migrants off the tiny island of Lampedusa could and should have been prevented, like the countless other deaths that have occurred over the last years in those waters.
  • (16) This man’s anguish and his love for his children pour out of your image and it is [a] look that I saw in the faces of countless people as we took them from the boats.” Working on deadline, I lost track of the family.
  • (17) 4.01pm BST Former GOP congressman and TV host Joe Scarborough lays into the Romney campaign in an op-ed for Politico : How can it be that this man who turned around countless businesses, saved the 2002 Olympics and ran Democratic Massachusetts like a pro be the head of such a disastrous campaign?
  • (18) Anti-Trump protesters to descend on NBC headquarters over SNL appearance Read more This weekend, however, the latest leg of the tour has countless Latino organizations and their allies declaring that NBC’s Trump hypocrisy will no longer be tolerated.
  • (19) The result is the emasculation not just of Scotland , but of Newcastle, Oldham, the Midlands, and countless other places not featured on the Circle line.
  • (20) Countless veterans survived the war but paid the price by leaving it maimed, mutilated and disfigured.

Eternity


Definition:

  • (n.) Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
  • (n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
  • (2) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
  • (3) In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth.
  • (4) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
  • (5) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
  • (6) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
  • (7) In each of his creative capacities, he was the eternal quiet man.
  • (8) Even Alec – eternally hard to please where his own work was concerned – loved it.
  • (9) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
  • (10) Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn Read more “But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe .
  • (11) They call it, rather unsurprisingly, the eternal flame.
  • (12) They were created on the basis that, whatever the cost, there are some eternal values that are worth upholding in a civilised society.
  • (13) He has taken the legacy of postwar abstract expressionism, and allied to that a deep love of the great eternal themes of the classical world.
  • (14) Murray said: "I'm eternally grateful to Ivan for all his hard work over the past two years, the most successful of my career so far.
  • (15) I am not sure that a lucrative career in rape gags is more helpful than a failed one, but the rape hum seems eternal.
  • (16) Ras proteins are membrane-associated transducers of eternal stimuli to unknown intracellular targets.
  • (17) One, Baroness O'Cathain, has said, in relation to politics and her evangelism: "For me it is a guarantee of eternal peace."
  • (18) Committed to eliminating the budget deficit by the end of next year, it just does not have the cash to fund, for example, big new infrastructure projects like an eternally proposed (and eternally postponed) bridge over the Straits of Messina.
  • (19) François Bayrou must have resigned himself to being the eternal also-ran of French presidential elections, by now.
  • (20) To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful.