supereternity
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editsupereternity (uncountable)
- (rare) The state of being supereternal.
- 2001, Pasquale Porro, The Medieval Concept of Time: Studies on the Scholastic Debate and Its Reception in Early Modern Philosophy[2], Brill, page 29:
- In fact, what follows is a rather fair summary of the doctrine of friar Theodoric in his De mensuris with the sequence of supereternity, eternity, perpetuity, sempiternity, and time, both discrete and continuous.
- 2008, Michael Share, David T. Runia, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus. Vol. 2. Book 2: Proclus on the causes of the Cosmos and its creation[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 99:
- That, then, is the interpretation of [the phrase] he was good, in which was indicates the surplenitude and absolute completeness and supereternity of divine being. For ‘is’ is used to refer to eternal things, was to the supereternal henads, and ‘will be’ to things existing in time.