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Eternity, also referred to as sempiternity or forever, is time with no end i.e. Infinity.
In the context of human life, eternity and death are co-existing realities.
The ancient Greek word for everlastingness was ἀίδιος ( aidios) as exists via Plotinus, who also used the word aoin (eternity), in Enneads III.7. The thought of Classical period Augustine, as exists in Book XI of the Confessions, and Boethius (c. 480–524 AD), in Book V of the Consolation of Philosophy were adopted as the reality of the subject for later thinkers in the western tradition of philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and many others in the Age of Enlightenment drew on the classical distinction to put forward metaphysical hypotheses such as "eternity is a permanent now".
In Genesis 21:33 of the Old Testament El-Olam is God-Eternal.
Mythic
Eternity as infinite duration is an important concept in many lives and . God or gods are often said to endure eternally, or exist for all time, forever, without beginning or end. Religious views of an afterlife may speak of it in terms of eternity or Immortality. Christian theologians may regard immutability, like the eternal Platonic realism, as essential to eternity.
The ancient greek word for everlasting and, or, eternal exists in the Orphica Hymni. -
Boethius stated eternity was: interminabilis vitae tota simul et perfecta possessio, which is translated as "simultaneously full and perfect possession of interminable life". and nunc permanens, which in English is a: permanent now. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 – 1274) believed in an eternal God, without either a beginning or end; the concept of eternity is of divine simplicity, thus incapable of being defined or fully understood by humankind.
Dante L. Germino (1982). 9780807109748, Louisiana State University Press - Baton Rouge & London. ISBN 9780807109748 ἀθάνατος (athanatos) is the Immortality.
Physics
The possibility of eternal universes with reference to General Relativity was a subject of physics since the 21st century.
Symbolism
Eternity is often symbolized by the endless snake, swallowing its own tail, the ouroboros. The circle, band, or ring is also commonly used as a symbol for eternity, as is the mathematical symbol of infinity, . Symbolically these are reminders that eternity has no beginning or end.
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