doomsaying
Forecasting inevitable disaster
Doomsaying is predicting disaster or catastrophe, often with an implication that the predictions are exaggerated or unwelcome.
A doomsayer warns of collapse, ruin, or apocalypse—economic, environmental, or otherwise: Despite the doomsaying, the company survived.
The term usually carries skepticism toward the prediction rather than the predictor's sincerity.
Pervasive dimness or dejection
- negativityDisposition toward pessimism
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- despairTotal absence of hope
- cynicismDistrust of human sincerity
hopelessness · defeatism · discouragement · disheartenment · melancholy · anxiety · worry · doubt
Foretelling of future events
- predictionForecast of coming events
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
- omenProphetic indicator
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
portent · premonition · herald · alarm · caution · cassandra · jeremiad · admonition
Prophesied concluding era
- ArmageddonProphesied ultimate conflict
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- tribulationState of great distress
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
antichrist · millenarianism · eschatology · beast · 666 · apocalypse · extinction · annihilation
Extremely serious or urgent
- grimHarsh and foreboding
- darkAbsence of light
- ominousSuggesting something bad approaches
- menacingConveying threat or danger
threatening · baleful · sinister · portentous · inauspicious · chilling · bleak · somber
Quality of being unavoidable
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- hopelessnessState without hope
fatalistic · nihilism · stoicism · kismet · foreordination · acceptance · surrender · inescapability
gloom
Pervasive dimness or dejection
- negativityDisposition toward pessimism
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- despairTotal absence of hope
cynicism · hopelessness · defeatism · discouragement · disheartenment · melancholy · anxiety · worry · doubt · misanthropy
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- predictionForecast of coming events
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
- omenProphetic indicator
harbinger · portent · premonition · herald · alarm · caution · cassandra · jeremiad · admonition · augury
end-times
Prophesied concluding era
- ArmageddonProphesied ultimate conflict
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- tribulationState of great distress
rapture · antichrist · millenarianism · eschatology · beast · 666 · apocalypse · extinction · annihilation · cataclysm
dire
Extremely serious or urgent
menacing · threatening · baleful · sinister · portentous · inauspicious · chilling · bleak · somber · grave
inevitability
Quality of being unavoidable
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
hopelessness · fatalistic · nihilism · stoicism · kismet · foreordination · acceptance · surrender · inescapability
- fearmongeringscaremongering, fearmongering, scare tactics, fear tactics, alarmism
- exaggerationhyperbole, overstatement, exaggeration, magnification, amplification
- intimidationthreats, threatening, menacing, intimidate, bullying
doomsayingoptimism
Tendency to expect good
Pollyannaism · boosterism · bullishness · utopianism · hope
doomsayingdenial
Refusal to accept reality
dismissiveness · complacency · head-in-the-sand · reassurance · minimizing
doomsayingreassurance
Words meant to calm
encouragement · confidence-building · cheerleading · morale-boosting · uplift
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