supereternity

English

Alternative forms

• super-eternity

Etymology

From super- +‎ eternity.

Noun

supereternity (uncountable)

1. (rare) The state of being supereternal.
   • 1989, Richard C. Dales, Medieval Discussions of the Eternity of the World‎^[1], Brill, →ISBN, page 193:

     The highest he calls eternity or supereternity and assigns it to the divine substance.

   • 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.