supereternal

English

Alternative forms

• super-eternal

Etymology

super- +‎ eternal

Adjective

supereternal (not comparable)

1. (rare) Properly everlasting or eternal; being in a state whose total existence is wholly unaffected by and independent of time itself.
   • 1901, Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia‎^[1], Funk & Wagnalls, page 13894:

     The Absolute is above eternity; it is infinitude. Hence there must be a mediating something between the supereternal and the subeternal.

   • 1909, Maurice de Wolfe, History of Mediaeval Philosophy‎^[2], Longmans, page 401:

     Nay, even although the world had no beginning, it would not be coeternal with God. For, God is supereternal (superaeternitas); the pure intelligences, including the intellectus agens, are eternal; the heavenly bodies had a beginning, but will have no end; terrestrial substances alone exist in time.

   • 1927, International Congress of Philosophy, Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Philosophy‎^[3], Longmans, Green, page 599:

     He is the primeval, the eternal, some say the supereternal, and all creatures are merely temporal and passing.