Usually means: Cyclical repetition of all existence.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (eternal return)

▸ noun:  (cosmology, religion, philosophy) Eternal recurrence.

Similar:
world to come, metacosm, cosmic egg, puer aeternus, Otherworld, transtheism, cosmolatry, pleroma, saṃsāra, universal opportunity, more...

Opposite:
linear time, one-way time, irreversible time

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Similar:
world to come, metacosm, cosmic egg, puer aeternus, Otherworld, transtheism, cosmolatry, pleroma, saṃsāra, universal opportunity, more...

Opposite:
linear time, one-way time, irreversible time



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