immortality

English

Noun

immortality (countable and uncountable; plural immortalities)

1. (fiction, religion, mythology, biology) The condition of being immortal.

   In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.

Related terms

• immortal
• mortality

Translations

condition of not being susceptible to death

Bosnian: besmrtnost (bs) f. Catalan: immortalitat (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 不朽 (cmn) (bùxiǔ), 永生 (cmn) (yǒngshēng) Croatian: bèsmrtnōst (hr) f. Czech: nesmrtelnost (cs) f. Esperanto: senmorteco (eo) Finnish: kuolemattomuus (fi) French: immortalité (fr) f. German: Unsterblichkeit (de) f. Greek: αθανασία (el) (athanasía) f. Hebrew: אלמות (he) (almavet) m., אלמלא (he) (ilmalei), אלמלי (he) (ilmalei) Hungarian: halhatatlanság (hu) Icelandic: ódauðleiki (is) m.

Japanese: 不老不死 (ja) (ふろうふし, furōfushi), 不朽 (ja) (ふきゅう, fukyū), 不死 (ja) (ふし, fushi), 永生 (ja) (えいせい, eisei) Korean: 불사신 (ko) (bulsasin) Polish: nieśmiertelność (pl) f. Portuguese: imortalidade (pt) f. Russian: бессмертие (ru) (bessmértije) n., бессмертность (ru) (bessmértnost’) f. (not common) Serbian: Cyrillic: бесмртност (sr) f. Roman: besmrtnost f. Spanish: inmortalidad (es) f. Swahili: hali ya kutokufa (sw) Swedish: odödlighet (sv) c. Turkish: ölümsüzlük (tr)

See also

• elixir of life
• undead
• Wikipedia article on immortality