timelessness.

1. The ability to remain meaningful, appealing, or relevant despite the passage of time.

2. A feeling that time has stopped, disappeared, or lost its usual importance.

3. Existence outside time or without temporal limits.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• the timelessness of a story
• the timelessness of a design

On the page

The play's timelessness rests on conflicts that each generation recognizes anew.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in these senses. Writing functions: interpretation, atmosphere, philosophical explanation. Commonness: moderately common. Enduring relevance, experience, and atemporal existence separated.