What is the meaning of eternal?

Continuing forever or indefinitely.
- usage: "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"
- synonyms: ageless, aeonian, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasing
Tiresomely long; seemingly without end.
- usage: "endless debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon"
- synonyms: endless, interminable

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