athanasy

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀθανασία (athanasía, immortality).

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athanasy (uncountable)

  1. An absence of death or the condition of everlasting life.
    • 1871, James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows:
      Is not a scholiastic athanasy better than none?
    • 2014, Borja Aguiló Obrador, “The Nursery Glass and the Wild Moor”, in Research Challenges for Anglophone Studies in the 21st Century, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, page 88:
      Hughes's "Ghost Crabs" has at its core a similar morbid fascination for this invading natural athanasy that overflows the symbolic protections of the self.

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