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eternal recurrence
n. (context cosmology religion philosophy English) The belief or theory that all the events in cosmic history repeat in an endless cycle.
Usage examples of "eternal recurrence".
Here, perhaps, there is an example of the eternal recurrence that Nietzsche was fond of mulling over in his blacker moods.
For some time I have been standing at the frontier where my work as Magister Ludi has become eternal recurrence, an empty exercise and formula.
But the feeling was so disturbing when it struck, this profound unshakable conviction that everything had happened before in exactly this way, as ineluctably as if eternal recurrence were really true.