ad infinitum

Adverb

ad infinitum (not comparable)

1. Endlessly; for ever; never-endingly.
   • Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
     And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
     And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
     While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.1872, Augustus DeMorgan, Siphonaptera
   • 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...