apocalypse
Civilization's final chapter
Apocalypse originally meant a revelation or unveiling of hidden knowledge, particularly divine truth.
The word now primarily refers to a catastrophic destruction of the world or civilization: zombie apocalypse, nuclear apocalypse, climate apocalypse.
Capitalized, the Apocalypse refers specifically to the biblical Book of Revelation and its prophecy of end times.
The adjective apocalyptic describes catastrophic events or visions of total destruction: apocalyptic imagery, an apocalyptic landscape.
Violent, large-scale disaster
- doomsdayProphesied world's end
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- falloutPost-blast atmospheric particles
- wastelandUninhabitable barren region
annihilation · devastation · collapse · meltdown · pandemic
Overwhelming ecstatic feeling
- tribulationState of great distress
- antichristEnemy of the faith
- beastLarge wild animal
- millenniumSpan of thousand years
Act of first revealing
- disclosureAct of revealing information
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- truthAccordance with reality
insight · manifestation · uncovering · enlightenment · exposé · vision · prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- omenProphetic indicator
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
- seerOne who envisions futures
oracle · portent · sign · premonition · visionary · foretelling · augury · warning
cataclysm
Violent, large-scale disaster
- doomsdayProphesied world's end
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- falloutPost-blast atmospheric particles
wasteland · annihilation · devastation · collapse · meltdown · pandemic
rapture
Overwhelming ecstatic feeling
- tribulationState of great distress
- antichristEnemy of the faith
- beastLarge wild animal
unveiling
Act of first revealing
- disclosureAct of revealing information
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
truth · insight · manifestation · uncovering · enlightenment · exposé · vision · prophecy
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- omenProphetic indicator
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
seer · oracle · portent · sign · premonition · visionary · foretelling · augury · warning
survivor
One still alive after
- wastelandUninhabitable barren region
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
scavenger · dystopia · rebuilding · remnant · shelter · radiation · mutant · prepper · desolation
- BiblicalAdam, Eve, Moses, Noah, David
- Biblical ReferencesAdam and Eve, ark, forbidden fruit, Garden of Eden, Ten Commandments
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- mythsmyth, legend, fable, fairy tale, folk tale
- doomdoomsday, impending doom, doom and gloom, doomed, sense of doom
- story typesmyth, fable, fables, legend, drama
apocalypsesalvation
Deliverance from harm
redemption · paradise · heaven · utopia · golden age
apocalypsehiccup
Spasmodic breath intake
inconvenience · blip · non-event · trifle · triviality
- zombie apocalypseMass reanimation ending society
- apocalyptic visionProphetic image of cataclysm
- Apocalypse NowVietnam War epic
- Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseEndtime's four mounted destroyers
- post-apocalyptic fictionStories after society's destruction
- post-apocalyptic worldsSettings after civilization's end
apocalyptic, apocalypses, apocalyptical, apocalyptically, post-apocalyptic