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Meaning

too much of a bother

Finding something a hassle and not feeling like doing it. It describes reluctance to get moving on something that looks like it will take effort.

Example

雨の日は外に出るのが億劫だ。

On rainy days, going outside feels like too much trouble.

Origin

Kō (劫) is a transliteration of the Sanskrit kalpa, a unit of extremely long time. 億劫 is a hundred million times that. It was originally read okkō or okukō and was a Buddhist term for an unimaginably long period. Since something that takes a long time to accomplish cannot be done easily, the meaning shifted to "not easily done" and then to "bothersome, not inclined to do," and the reading also changed to okkū.

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