aeon or US eon [ee-on]
Noun
1. an immeasurably long period of time
2. the longest division of geological time [Greek aiōn]
Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006
During the three terrible hours that the play had lasted, he had lived centuries of pain, aeon upon aeon of torture.The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar
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