world ending
Everything ceasing forever
World ending describes something catastrophic enough to destroy civilization or existence itself: a world-ending asteroid, world-ending nuclear war.
Often used hyperbolically for situations that feel devastating but aren't literally apocalyptic: Missing one deadline isn't world ending.
The phrase captures both genuine existential threats and the tendency to catastrophize ordinary setbacks.
- doomsdayProphesied world's end
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
- four horsemenFour dominant field leaders
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- judgment dayFinal divine assessment
catastrophe · Ragnarok · cataclysm · extinction · annihilation · Armageddon · asteroid impact · eschatology · destruction · calamity · crack of doom · finality · doomsday event · heat death · nuclear winter · supervolcano · nuclear war · climate collapse
- eschatologyeschatology, apocalypse, end times, final judgment, second coming
- apocalypseapocalypse, Armageddon, end times, rapture, tribulation
world endinggenesis
Point of creation
creation · new beginning · Big Bang · origin of life · renewal
world endingtrivial
Lacking significance or weight
inconsequential · insignificant · minor · petty · negligible
world endingworld saving
Preventing planetary annihilation
preservation · salvation · perpetuity · everlasting · enduring
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