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athanasia
[ath-uh-ney-zhuh]
noun
deathlessness; immortality.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of athanasia1
Example Sentences
Wendy Stewart, who was picked to run commercial banking, and Holly O’Neill, who will lead retail banking, will report to Mr. Athanasia.
It also gave more responsibilities to Dean Athanasia, who runs the consumer-banking division from Boston.
Dean Athanasia, the head of Bank of America’s consumer and small business group, sent a memo to employees on Friday pledging to “enhance” the program soon “to accommodate more and more of our small-business clients.”
The bank has focused on its business customers with loans first but will be expanding access quickly, Dean Athanasia, the head of Bank of America’s consumer business, said in a note to employees.
“We will expand our process soon,” Athanasia said.
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When To Use
Athanasia is deathlessness or immortality, as in The trouble with athanasia is that when you live forever, life can get pretty boring.An uncommon term, athanasia refers to the inability to die or the possession of eternal life. Many ancient mythologies contain depictions of athanasia, especially Greek, which the term comes from. In some stories, especially those containing vampires, athanasia is an eternal youth. The vampire will never grow old or die of old age but can die in other ways. Athanasia is used in titles of games and fiction that deal with immortality. Athanasia is also used as a personal name, especially for Greek women, and is the name of a genus of flowering plants native to Africa. The plants have yellow flowers and are related to daisies.Sometimes athanasia is used figuratively to mean an impossibly long time.Example: Rachel kept expecting the lead character to die during the battle scenes, but apparently he has athanasia and walks away without a scratch.
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