continuant vs forever

continuant

adj
  • Continuing; prolonged; sustained. 

noun
  • An endurant. 

  • A determinant formed from a tridiagonal matrix. 

  • A linguistic sound other than a stop. 

forever

adj
  • Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual. 

adv
  • We had to wait forever to get inside. 

  • For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time. 

  • For a very long time, a seeming eternity. 

  • Constantly or frequently. 

noun
  • An extremely long time. 

  • A mythical time in the infinite future that will never come. 

How often have the words continuant and forever occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )