reckonings
Moments of judgment
Reckonings are calculations or assessments, often involving settling accounts or coming to terms with consequences.
A day of reckoning is when someone must face the results of their actions or decisions.
The word carries weight in both practical contexts—tallying figures, estimating costs—and moral or dramatic ones, where it suggests judgment or accountability.
The financial reckonings showed the company was insolvent.
After years of corruption, the political reckonings finally arrived.
Time of divine reckoning
- comeuppanceDeserved punishment or rebuke
- accountingMaintaining financial records
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
consequences · justice · atonement · settling accounts · final judgment · divine judgment · punishment · recompense
Rough calculations of value
- talliesRecorded count marks
- computationsActs of calculating
- sumsAddition results
- figuresNumerical values or forms
counts · totals · assessments · evaluations · tabulations · arithmetic · numbers · navigation
Official bodies investigating past atrocities
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- historical justiceAccountability for past wrongs
- memorializationPreserving in lasting tribute
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
reconciliation · reparations · acknowledgment · collective memory · testimonies · tribunals · inquiries · apologies
Decisive final confrontations
- settling scoresAvenging past grievances
- moment of truthDecisive instant of revelation
- coming to termsAccepting a difficult truth
- realizationsMoments of sudden understanding
awakenings · revelations · reconsiderations · reassessments · turning points · crises · confrontations · standoffs
day of judgment
Time of divine reckoning
- comeuppanceDeserved punishment or rebuke
- accountingMaintaining financial records
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
retribution · consequences · justice · atonement · settling accounts · final judgment · divine judgment · punishment · recompense · dues
estimates
Rough calculations of value
- talliesRecorded count marks
- computationsActs of calculating
- sumsAddition results
figures · counts · totals · assessments · evaluations · tabulations · arithmetic · numbers · navigation · approximations
truth commissions
Official bodies investigating past atrocities
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- historical justiceAccountability for past wrongs
- memorializationPreserving in lasting tribute
remembrance · reconciliation · reparations · acknowledgment · collective memory · testimonies · tribunals · inquiries · apologies · amends
showdowns
Decisive final confrontations
- settling scoresAvenging past grievances
- moment of truthDecisive instant of revelation
- coming to termsAccepting a difficult truth
realizations · awakenings · revelations · reconsiderations · reassessments · turning points · crises · confrontations · standoffs · clashes
reckoningspardons
Official forgiveness of crimes
amnesty · forgiveness · absolution · exoneration · clemency
reckoningsguesses
Estimates without certainty
hunches · ignorance · approximations · estimations · disregard
reckoningsdeferrals
Granted delays of obligations
postponements · avoidances · denials · repressions · suppressions
- day of reckoningTime of final judgment
- final reckoningUltimate settling of accounts
- dead reckoningPosition-tracking via estimated motion
- reckoning withConfronting something difficult
- moral reckoningConfronting one's ethical debts
- historical reckoningReassessing past wrongs