Dictionary

athanasy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈθænəsɪ/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀθανασία (athanasía, “immortality”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) An absence of death or the condition of everlasting life.
   • 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. 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:
   • Is not a scholiastic athanasy better than none? 1871, James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows:

Forms

Relateds

agerasia · athanatism

Synonyms

deathlessness

Translations (1)

pl atanazja (Translations)