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eternity; everlasting time; an eon
An immensely long, essentially endless span of time, originally from Buddhist cosmology (kalpa). In modern Japanese it almost always appears in the set phrase 未来永劫.
未来永劫忘れない。
I'll never forget — not for all eternity.
Originally a Buddhist term derived from the Sanskrit kalpa. In contemporary use it is virtually fixed to the four-character compound 未来永劫 'for all future eternity', often appearing in formal or emphatic statements.
Common collocations
- 未来永劫: for all eternity to come (by far the most common form)
- 永劫回帰: eternal recurrence (philosophical term)