apocalypticism

plural apocalypticisms

1. countableuncountablelifestyleA belief or doctrine based on apocalypse, especially which believes in an imminent end to the current world order.

   China's huge scale magnified the effects of apocalypticism in the Taipeng Rebellion.

   2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 897

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   Apocalypticism has gripped the collective psyche many times before, and has frequently been acute among the young. In 1982, during the peak of the Cold War, more than a third of American high-school seniors believed that humanity would probably be wiped out in their lifetime.

   2026 September 18, Thomas Chatterton Williams, “The Other Way AI Impairs Our Thinking”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of apocalypticism.