apocalypticism

noun

apoc·​a·​lyp·​ti·​cism ə-ˌpä-kə-ˈlip-tə-ˌsi-zəm 

variants or apocalyptism

ə-ˈpä-kə-ˌlip-ˌti-zəm 

: apocalyptic expectation

especially : a doctrine concerning an imminent end of the world and an ensuing general resurrection and final judgment

Examples of apocalypticism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Found in many religious traditions, apocalypticism warns that catastrophe is looming and that humanity needs a tool to achieve salvation. —Sigal Samuel, Vox, 19 June 2024

In a way, our own age’s greasy stew of absurdity and apocalypticism, creeping death tinged with clown-shoe idiocy, suggests a world that has finally, fatefully, caught up with Pynchon. —John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023

Still others dismiss the catalog of doom and gloom as mere apocalypticism itself. —Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012

Often apocalypticism is then differentiated from both millenarianism and eschatology. —Michael Robbins, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022

The apocalypticism and the persecution complex of the movement are perfectly suited to the task. —Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2022

Huntington doesn’t pay much attention to conservative Protestant apocalypticism, which was a key factor in this era. —Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021

Death, violence and apocalypticism surged with the Black Death of the 1340s. —Washington Post, 18 June 2021

Initially, white evangelical apocalypticism was conservative and anti-statist, but not overtly partisan. —Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2021

Word History

Etymology

apocalypticism from apocalyptic + -ism; apocalyptism from apocalypt(ic) + -ism

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for apocalypticism

• abolitionism
• aldosteronism
• americanism
• anticommunism
• antisemitism
• antiterrorism
• bioterrorism
• colloquialism
• colonialism
• consequentialism
• contextualism
• conventionalism