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Crisis vs Anticrisis - What's the difference?

crisis | anticrisis |

As a noun crisis

is a crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.

As an adjective anticrisis is

intended to prevent or counter a crisis.

crisis

English

Noun

(crises)
  • A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
  • An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
  • A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die.
  • (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
  • (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, crisis management , currency crisis , financial crisis , economic crisis , international crisis , identity crisis , existential crisis , personal crisis , psychological crisis , midlife crisis , quarter-life crisis}}

    Related terms

    * critic * critical * criticize * critique * criterion

    External links

    * * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    anticrisis

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Intended to prevent or counter a crisis.
  • * 1982 , John Pinder, National industrial strategies and the world economy
    • The anticrisis measures in the form of the trigger prices were only one element of the government's program for steel.