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Mishap vs Cataclysm - What's the difference?

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Mishap is a related term of cataclysm.


As nouns the difference between mishap and cataclysm

is that mishap is an accident, mistake, or problem while cataclysm is a sudden, violent event.

mishap

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An accident, mistake, or problem.
  • Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.
  • *
  • He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.
  • Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Secure from worldly chances and mishaps .

    cataclysm

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden, violent event.
  • (geology) A sudden and violent change in the earth's crust.
  • A great flood.
  • Derived terms

    * cataclysmic