apocalypticism
Expecting cosmic finality
Apocalypticism is belief in or preoccupation with an imminent, catastrophic end to the present world order, usually accompanied by divine judgment and the establishment of a new era.
The term applies to religious movements expecting literal end times and to secular anxieties about civilizational collapse: Climate apocalypticism warns of planetary doom.
Apocalyptic is the more common adjective.
Study of ultimate destiny
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- tribulationState of great distress
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- resurrectionRevival from death
salvation · damnation · redemption · antichrist · messiah · heaven · hell · eternity
Foretelling of future events
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- visionAbility to see
- omenProphetic indicator
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
foretelling · seer · oracle · divination · prognostication · presage · foresight · prediction
Prophesied world's end
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- devastationSevere widespread destruction
extinction · collapse · ruin · calamity · holocaust · decimation · obliteration · desolation
Span of thousand years
- utopiaImagined perfect society
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
- messianicRelating to a savior
- transformationThorough change in form
Global disease outbreak
- dystopiaImaginary terrible society
- prepperOne who stockpiles for catastrophe
- survivalismEmergency readiness lifestyle
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
eschatology
Study of ultimate destiny
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- tribulationState of great distress
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
resurrection · salvation · damnation · redemption · antichrist · messiah · heaven · hell · eternity · immortality
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- visionAbility to see
- omenProphetic indicator
harbinger · foretelling · seer · oracle · divination · prognostication · presage · foresight · prediction · augury
doomsday
Prophesied world's end
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
devastation · extinction · collapse · ruin · calamity · holocaust · decimation · obliteration · desolation · wasteland
millennium
Span of thousand years
pandemic
Global disease outbreak
- dystopiaImaginary terrible society
- prepperOne who stockpiles for catastrophe
- survivalismEmergency readiness lifestyle
apocalypticismgradualism
Philosophy of incremental change
incrementalism · uniformitarianism · reformism · evolutionism · progressivism
apocalypticismoptimism
Tendency to expect good
utopianism · hopefulness · Pollyannaism · sanguinity · confidence