What is the meaning of perpetual?

Continuing forever or indefinitely.
- usage: "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven"
- synonyms: ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, unending, unceasing
Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing.
- usage: "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger"
- synonyms: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, unceasing, unremitting

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