Crisis vs Apocalypse - What's the difference?
crisis | apocalypse |
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.
A revelation.
(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:
As a noun crisis
is a crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.As a proper noun apocalypse is
(countable|biblical) the written account of a revelation of hidden things given by god to a chosen prophet.crisis
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(crises)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}}External links
* * English nouns with irregular plurals ----apocalypse
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(en noun)- The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.
- The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse .
