eonian

An archaic adjective meaning lasting for an immeasurably long period of time; eternal or everlasting.

• 🇩🇪Veraltetes Adjektiv, das einen unermesslich langen Zeitraum dauernd bedeutet; ewig oder unendlich.

1. Relating to a geological eon C2 formal

   Pertaining to a major division of geological time, which is longer than an era.

   • The eonian timescales of the Precambrian are difficult to comprehend.
   • Geologists study eonian processes that shaped the Earth's crust.
   • These rocks formed over eonian periods of sedimentation.

   🇩🇪äonisch

2. Lasting forever C2 formal

   Continuing for an indefinitely long time; eternal or everlasting.

   • The poet wrote of eonian love that never fades.
   • Some philosophers argue for an eonian cycle of existence.
   • The mountains stood in eonian silence, unchanged by the ages.

   🇩🇪Ewig

   Synonyme: endlesseternaleverlastingimmortalnever-endingperpetualsempiternalundying

   Antonyme: ephemeralfleetingmomentaryshort-livedtemporarytransient