Meanings
adjectiveperi-apocalyptic (comparative more peri-apocalyptic, superlative most peri-apocalyptic)
comparative more peri-apocalyptic · superlative most peri-apocalyptic · alternative periapocalyptic
- During an apocalypse.
Outage is 150,000 word novel of a genre I’d call peri-apocalyptic. It’s not post-apocalyptic because it doesn’t take place after the “end of the world,” but during.
2012 January 28, Peter Joseph Lewis, quoting Mathieu Gallant, “Mathieu Gallant - Outage”, in Why Did You Write That?
Origin
From peri- (“near”) + apocalyptic.
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