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Millennial vs Millennialist - What's the difference?

millennial | millennialist |

As nouns the difference between millennial and millennialist

is that millennial is a person from the generation which grew up in the 1990s and 2000s while millennialist is a believer in millennialism.

As an adjective millennial

is referring to the 1,000th anniversary of an event or happening: millennial fair .

millennial

English

Adjective

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  • Referring to the 1,000th anniversary of an event or happening: millennial fair .
  • Occurring every thousand years
  • Occurring at the end or beginning of a millennium
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 26 , author=Genevieve Koski , title=Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts. }}
  • (Christianity) Referring to the millennium: the millennial judgment .

    • Related terms

    * bimillennial * decamillennial * millennium * quadrimillennial * trimillennial

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from the generation which grew up in the 1990s and 2000s.

    • millennialist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A believer in millennialism.