eschatologism

Etymology

From eschatology + -ism.

eschatologism means the belief that the world is renewed through apocalyptic crises. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

ESCHATOLOGISM — [Noun] The doctrine that the world is fundamentally renewed or transformed through apocalyptic crises. From eschatology, from the Greek eskhatos ("last, furthest") and -logia ("study, discourse"), and the suffix -ism ("doctrine, system"). Unlike "eschatology" (the dispassionate theological study of final things) or "millenarianism" (which fixates on a specific, post-cataclysmic earthly paradise), eschatologism is the active conviction that purification requires annihilation. It is the scent of ozone before the lightning strike, the strange comfort a community draws from a collapsing empire, and the patient tending of seeds in a field one plans to salt—a creed that finds its purest hope in the promise of absolute ruin.

noun

The belief that the world is renewed through apocalyptic crises.“Eschatologism as an attitude is fundamentally different to mechanicism because it aspires beyond space and time towards non-worldly realities which drive history and the very scientific exploration of the world.”