Can we form abstract words or phrases like”end of eternity”?
There is nothing wrong with using these phrases, except that one needs to be careful of the context in which they are used. For example, you do not want to use them in scientific papers but rather as literary devices in poetry, novels etc. Strictly speaking, the ‘END OF ETERNITY’ is a contradiction in terms. Eternity goes on forever. There is no end. To refer to the end of eternity is therefore contradictory. Similarly the ‘twelfth of never’ contains an inherent contradiction. ‘Never’ refers to a period of time that will never come about. So there can be no ‘twelfth of never’. Similarly a ‘line from nowhere’ can never exist; so why is there a line? You may also have heard recently of the ‘road to nowhere’ in Alaskan politics.Other examples are ‘Make haste slowly’, ‘Honest lawyer’, ‘Deafening silence’ and ‘team of mavericks’ (a ‘maverick’ is somebody who works alone, not with a team). These are sometimes called oxymorons (or oxymora).
