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Doomsday vs Apocalypse - What's the difference?

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Apocalypse is a synonym of doomsday.



As nouns the difference between doomsday and apocalypse

is that doomsday is the day when God is expected to judge the world; end times while apocalypse is a revelation.

As an adjective doomsday

is concerned with or predicting future universal destruction.

As a proper noun Apocalypse is

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

doomsday

English

(wikipedia doomsday)

Adjective

(-)
  • Concerned with or predicting future universal destruction.
  • Given to or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity.
  • Capable of causing widespread or total destruction; doomsday weapon.

    • Derived terms

    * doomsday bomb * Domesday Book * doomsday event * doomsday machine * doomsday scenario * doomsday weapon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The day when God is expected to judge the world; end times.
  • judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.

    • Synonyms

    * apocalypse * Armageddon * end times * Final Judgment * judgement day * nuclear holocaust * Ragnarok or

    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