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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Incapability of dying; immortality.

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  • noun The condition of not being susceptible to death; immortality.

Etymologies

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A calque (or in some cases a continuation) of the Middle English undeadlinesse, vndeedlinesse, undeadlichnesse, from Old English undēadlīcnes ("immortality"), equivalent to undeadly +‎ -ness; compare the German Unsterblichkeit, a compound formed the same way.

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