ad infinitum
advCA, US, UK /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/ · UK, SC /ad ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
Etymology Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad īnfīnītum (“to infinity”).
1
Endlessly; for ever; never-endingly.
- The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!1984, Milan Kundera, part I (Lightness and Weight), chapter I, in Michael Henry Heim, transl., The Unbearable Lightness of Being, London: Faber and Faber, translation of Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí, published 1985, →ISBN, page 3: