Why this word is great
EVERLASTINGNESS — [Noun] The state or quality of being everlasting; infinite or unending duration. From Middle English everlastingnesse, formed within English by combining everlasting (from Old English ǣfre "ever" + lasting, from lǣstan "to continue") + -ness (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting state or quality). Unlike "eternity" (which drifts toward celestial abstraction) or "permanence" (which clings to stubborn stasis), everlastingness is the mundane terror of a thing simply not stopping. It is the slow erosion of mountains into sand, the ceaseless whisper of waves against a cliff, or the way a mother’s grief outlives the child it mourns—an endlessness not of grandeur, but of sheer, indifferent persistence. Time, against all expectation, keeps passing, and some things remain.