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Catastrophe vs Doomer - What's the difference?

catastrophe | doomer |

As a verb catastrophe

is .

As a noun doomer is

(video games|informal) a player of the video game doom .

catastrophe

English

(wikipedia catastrophe)

Alternative forms

* (now rare) *

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
  • (insurance) A disaster beyond expectations
  • (narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot in a tragedy.
  • (mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.

    • Synonyms

    *nakba

    Derived terms

    * catastrophe bond * catastrophe theory

    Related terms

    * anastrophe * apostrophe * cataclysm

    doomer

    English

    (wikipedia doomer)

    Noun

    (en noun) (Malthusian Catastrophe)
  • One who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.
  • * 2009 , David Holmgren, Future Scenarios
    • Those who suggest the likely return of the four horsemen of the apocalypse (famine, pestilence, war, and death) are more vocal than ever before despite being labeled Malthusian or just "doomer ."
  • (rare) One who, or that which, dooms.
  • * 1599? , William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    • Are not the heavens doomers of men's deedes?
  • * 1869 , Edward Bulwer Lytton, Prose Works
    • That fatal look of a common intelligence, of a common assent, was exchanged among the doomers of the prisoner's life and death, as the judge concluded.

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