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Apocalypse vs Preapocalyptic - What's the difference?

apocalypse | preapocalyptic |

As a noun apocalypse

is a revelation.

As a proper noun Apocalypse

is the written account of a revelation of hidden things given by God to a chosen prophet.

As an adjective preapocalyptic is

before an apocalypse.

apocalypse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A revelation.
    • The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.
  • (Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the ; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
  • A disaster; a cataclysmic event.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 699:
    • The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse .

    Synonyms

    * armageddon * doomsday * judgement day * nuclear holocaust * Ragnarok (Ragnarök) * Final Judgment * end times * eschaton

    Derived terms

    * apocalyptic * apocalypticism * snowpocalypse

    preapocalyptic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Before an apocalypse.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 16, author=Michiko Kakutani, title=Post 9/11, a New York of Gatsby-Size Dreams and Loss, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Rachel’s decision is partly based on her fear of another attack on New York: they were trying to understand, Hans recalls, “whether we were in a preapocalyptic situation, like the European Jews in the ’30s or the last citizens of Pompeii, or whether our situation was merely near apocalyptic, like that of the cold war inhabitants of New York, London, Washington and, for that matter, Moscow.” }}