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ad infinitum

adv
/æd ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/CA/ad ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/UK/æd ˌɪn.fəˈnɑɪ.təm/

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad īnfīnītum (“to infinity”).

  1. derived from ad īnfīnītum — “to infinity”

Definitions

  1. Endlessly

    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!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ad infinitum. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA