aeon

Definitions


[ˈiːən], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an indefinite and very long period of time
(e.g: he reached the crag aeons before I arrived)

- (in Neoplatonism, Platonism, and Gnosticism) a power existing from eternity; an emanation or phase of the supreme deity


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Origin:
late 16th century (in aeon): via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek aiōn ‘age’




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