apocalyptic vision
End-times mental image
An apocalyptic vision is a dramatic mental image or prophecy of catastrophic destruction, often involving the end of the world or civilization as we know it.
The phrase appears in religious contexts describing divine revelations of final judgment, but extends to secular predictions of doom—nuclear war, climate collapse, pandemic devastation.
The novel presents an apocalyptic vision of cities reduced to rubble.
Someone with an apocalyptic vision sees disaster on the horizon, whether through spiritual insight or pessimistic extrapolation.
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- millenarianismDoctrine of prophesied utopia
- eschatologyStudy of ultimate destiny
- ArmageddonProphesied ultimate conflict
- fire and brimstoneWrathful divine punishment imagery
tribulation · final judgment · judgment day · signs and wonders · dystopia · antichrist · Book of Daniel · societal collapse · Dies Irae · great flood · extinction event · climate crisis · second coming · last days · mass extinction · asteroid impact · nuclear fallout · apocalyptic
- Christian epicsParadise Lost, Divine Comedy, Pilgrim's Progress, Inferno, Paradiso
- visionsvisions, apparition, dream, dreams, apparitions
- Exile BooksDaniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Book of Daniel, Babylonian exile
- apocalypseArmageddon, end times, rapture, tribulation, second coming
- Christian cosmologyheaven, hell, God, angels, demons
- ExpressionismEdvard Munch, The Scream, Der Blaue Reiter, German Expressionism, woodcuts
apocalyptic visionutopian vision
Imagined perfect society
rosy outlook · bright future · golden age · promised land · paradise
apocalyptic visiongradualism
Philosophy of incremental change
status quo · continuity · stability · sustainable development · business as usual