doomsday event
World-ending disaster scenario
A doomsday event is a catastrophe severe enough to end civilization or cause human extinction—nuclear war, asteroid impact, pandemic, or climate collapse.
The term appears in discussions of existential risk and apocalyptic scenarios: Scientists assess the probability of various doomsday events.
In fiction and games, doomsday events drive post-apocalyptic narratives.
Prophesied apocalyptic conclusion
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- judgment dayFinal divine assessment
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
annihilation · apocalypse · tribulation · four horsemen · antichrist · eschatology · prophecy · second coming
Space rock collision event
- nuclear warArmed conflict using fission weapons
- supervolcanoMassive eruption-capable geological formation
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- climate collapseIrreversible planetary environmental failure
solar flare · earthquake · tsunami · meteor strike · mass extinction · global warming · ice age · nuclear winter
- zombie apocalypseMass reanimation ending society
- alien invasionAttack from outer space
- TerminatorKiller android series
- War of the WorldsFictional extraterrestrial invasion narrative
Independence Day · The Road · Mad Max · Fallout · Walking Dead · I Am Legend · Deep Impact · Armageddon
Emergency readiness lifestyle
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- prepperOne who stockpiles for catastrophe
- fallout shelterRadiation-proof refuge structure
- emergency suppliesGoods stored for crises
bug-out bag · stockpiling · civil defense · FEMA · evacuation · emergency broadcast · martial law · rationing
end times
Prophesied apocalyptic conclusion
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- judgment dayFinal divine assessment
extinction · annihilation · apocalypse · tribulation · four horsemen · antichrist · eschatology · prophecy · second coming · final judgment
asteroid impact
Space rock collision event
- nuclear warArmed conflict using fission weapons
- supervolcanoMassive eruption-capable geological formation
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
climate collapse · solar flare · earthquake · tsunami · meteor strike · mass extinction · global warming · ice age · nuclear winter · electromagnetic pulse
Skynet
- zombie apocalypseMass reanimation ending society
- alien invasionAttack from outer space
- TerminatorKiller android series
War of the Worlds · Independence Day · The Road · Mad Max · Fallout · Walking Dead · I Am Legend · Deep Impact · Armageddon · 2012
survivalism
Emergency readiness lifestyle
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- prepperOne who stockpiles for catastrophe
- fallout shelterRadiation-proof refuge structure
emergency supplies · bug-out bag · stockpiling · civil defense · FEMA · evacuation · emergency broadcast · martial law · rationing · self-sufficiency
doomsday eventhiccup
Spasmodic breath intake
non-event · blip · bump in the road · tempest in a teapot · nothing burger
doomsday eventsalvation
Deliverance from harm
golden age · renaissance · utopia · new dawn · genesis
doomsday eventmiracle
Supernatural occurrence beyond explanation
blessing · godsend · breakthrough · triumph · deliverance
doom, doomsday, doomed, dooming, dooms, event, events, eventful, uneventful