What's the difference between endlessness and eternity?

Endlessness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being endless; perpetuity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
  • (2) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (3) President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one.
  • (4) Endless utilitarian apartment blocks and gigantic hotels sprawl seemingly at random in the so-called "coastal cluster".
  • (5) For the moment, the priority is managing this endless human tide.
  • (6) Harping on endlessly about a woman’s hair, legs and handbag instead of her ideas and achievements can be horribly belittling, a way of refusing to take her seriously as a professional.
  • (7) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
  • (8) Abbado sees this as meaning that music is both destroyed and redeemed by its temporality: it exists and is extinguished in a moment, but has the endless possibility of being created anew in time.
  • (9) Neil Coyle is MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark Matthew Pennycook: ‘The overwhelming majority respect the leadership result’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Matthew Pennycook Ignore the endless speculation; the Labour party is not about to split.
  • (10) The endless immaturity of the baby-boom generation must surely be coming to a close, as we learn, at last, to grow up.
  • (11) Baghdad and Erbil have an endless list of grievances, ranging from border controls and the integration of the peshmerga to the Iraqi national army, to the delimitation of Kurdistan and the sharing of wealth between the centre and the autonomous region – especially oil.
  • (12) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
  • (13) Earlier this week, the New York representative Richard Hanna became the first Republican elected to Congress to endorse Clinton , writing in an op-ed that he considers Trump “deeply flawed in endless ways”.
  • (14) Wexford's endless war against clichés is hers, she admits.
  • (15) Now the emphasis is all on an endless cycle of marking homework, lesson plans and managing the behaviour of classes.
  • (16) The options for “transitional justice” are endless: South African-style truth and reconciliation, a prosecutorial tribunal, such as that handling former Yugoslavia, or something in between.
  • (17) Even more welcome is the slimming-down of the syllabus in the new draft, after teachers complained about the overloading of the old one with endless facts and dates; far too many to teach in the time available in schools.
  • (18) Development experts, so focused on their endless and crucial work, often neglect this area.
  • (19) She said: "There has been a huge amount of anguish and endless discussion of what more could have been done to save this boy.
  • (20) Papadopoulos said: "This crisis has taught us that we can't go on acting the way we did, living off loans, treating the state as an endless treasury to be raided, never thinking about our future."

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.

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