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Recession vs Doomer - What's the difference?

recession | doomer |

As nouns the difference between recession and doomer

is that recession is recession while doomer is (video games|informal) a player of the video game doom .

recession

English

(wikipedia recession)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice.
  • A period of reduced economic activity
    • ''Statisticians often define a recession as negative, real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.
  • The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.

    • Synonyms

    * (receding) withdrawal * (ceremonial) return procession

    Antonyms

    * (period of reduced economic activity) boom

    Derived terms

    * recessionary * recessionista

    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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