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==English==

===Etymology===
From {{af|en|un-|ending|id1=negative}}.

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# Not [[end]]ing; having no end; [[eternal]].
#* {{RQ:Haggard She|passage=At any rate I was very sure that ''I'' would not attempt to attain '''unending''' life.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1930|author=w:John Donald Wade|title=The Life and Death of Cousin Lucius|editor2=Donald Davidson|title2=Selected Essays and Other Writings of John Donald Wade|year2=1966|page2=26|pageurl2=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7tExSkeNpnEC&pg=PA26|text=As he looked back and thought of the recurrent seasons falling upon the world it seemed to him that they had come to the count, over and over, of Hard Times, Hard Times, Hard Times, more monotonous, more '''unending''', than the count of the soldiers, muttering as they marched, years before, in the town which had before been called only the crossroads.}}

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|having no end}} {{l|en|termless}}; see also [[Thesaurus:endless]]

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|end}}
* {{l|en|ending}}
* {{l|en|unendingly}}
* {{l|en|unendingness}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|never reaching an end}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|絡繹|tr=lok3 jik6}} {{qualifier|literary}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|絡繹|tr=luòyì}} {{qualifier|(literary)}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|loputon}}
* French: {{t+|fr|éternel}}, {{t|fr|[[sans]] [[fin]]}}, {{t+|fr|infini}}
* German: {{t+|de|endlos}}, {{t|de|nicht enden wollend}}, {{t+|de|ewig}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|ατελείωτος}}, {{t+|el|ατέλειωτος}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|infinit}}, {{t|oc|interminable}}, {{t|oc|[[sensa]] [[fin]]}}, {{t+|oc|etèrn}}, {{t+|oc|eternal}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|صوڭسز|tr=soñsız}}, {{t|ota|ابدی|tr=ebedî}}, {{t|ota|دایم|tr=daim}}, {{t|ota|موبد|tr=muʿebbed}}, {{t|ota|پاینده|tr=payende, payanda}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|interminable}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|sonsuz}}
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===References===
* {{R:Century 1911}}