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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.
この約束は未来永劫変わらない。
This promise will never change, for all time to come.
彼の業績は未来永劫語り継がれるだろう。
His achievements will be told for generations to come.
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)
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 永遠: eternity — the everyday word; less formal and used much more broadly
- 永久: permanence; forever — common in mechanical and legal senses (永久磁石)