Roomer vs Doomer - What's the difference?
roomer | doomer |
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
(rare) One who, or that which, dooms.
* 1599? , William Shakespeare, As You Like It
* 1869 , Edward Bulwer Lytton, Prose Works
As nouns the difference between roomer and doomer
is that roomer is a person who rents a room while doomer is one who believes that petroleum depletion will inevitably lead to a severe recession or depression, followed by a Malthusian catastrophe.As an adverb roomer
is at a greater distance; farther off.doomer
English
(wikipedia doomer)Noun
(en noun) (Malthusian Catastrophe)- 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 ."
- Are not the heavens doomers of men's deedes?
- 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.