parousia

noun

par·​ou·​sia ˌpär-ü-ˈsē-ə  pə-ˈrü-zē-ə 

variants or Parousia

in Christian theology

: the time when Jesus Christ will return to judge humanity at the end of the world : second coming

Christians around A.D. 64 anxiously awaited the parousia, Jesus Christ's imminent Second Coming.

—Tom Mueller

In a word, everything hinges on the interpretation, or rather, re-interpretation of the parousia, that is, the time of the arrival of the Messiah.

—Otto Rank

… treading the paths of history in order to come at last to the Parousia.

—States News Service

Word History

Etymology

Greek, literally, presence, from paront-, parōn, present participle of pareinai to be present, from para- + einai to be — more at is

First Known Use

1781, in the meaning defined above