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chiliastic

Syllables: chil·i·as·ticUK/ˌkɪ.liˈa.stɪk//ˌkɪ.liˈæ.stɪk/

chiliastic adjective: pertaining to the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity.

Adjective

chiliastic (comparative more chiliastic, superlative most chiliastic)

  1. Pertaining to the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity.
    • The social anthropologist can recognise in the millenarian sentiments of the Interregnum a parallel phenomenon to the chiliastic movements which still occur in the underdeveloped countries of today.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 139
    • The evanescent quality of Debord's later writing, his chiliastic serenity, is patent here: a voice speaking from a world one might want to make and then to live in, but also the voice of the mad professor in Eric Ambler's spy thriller Cause for Alarm.1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009
    Synonyms:
    millenarian

chiliastic meaning in Bengali

chiliastic in Bengali

হাজার বছরের রাজত্ব, মিলেনিয়াম সম্পর্কিত

Examples of chiliastic in a sentence

  • Yet, as Gary Weiss shows in his new book, Ayn Rand Nation, she has become to the new right what Karl Marx once was to the left: a demigod at the head of a chiliastic cult.2012 March 5, George Monbiot, “How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx”, in The Guardian:
  • In his pioneering study The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), Norman Cohn showed how Nazism was also a chiliastic movement.2018, John Gray, “The problem of hyper-liberalism”, in TLS:

Synonyms of chiliastic

Forms of chiliastic

comparativemore chiliastic
superlativemost chiliastic

Origin of chiliastic

From chiliast + -ic.

Words that rhyme with chiliastic

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about chiliastic

What does chiliastic mean?
Chiliastic means pertaining to the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity.
What is chiliastic in Bengali?
Chiliastic in Bengali is হাজার বছরের রাজত্ব, মিলেনিয়াম সম্পর্কিত. See Chiliastic meaning in Bengali.
How do you use chiliastic in a sentence?
Yet, as Gary Weiss shows in his new book, Ayn Rand Nation, she has become to the new right what Karl Marx once was to the left: a demigod at the head of a chiliastic cult.
What part of speech is chiliastic?
Chiliastic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce chiliastic?
Chiliastic is pronounced /ˌkɪ.liˈa.stɪk/ (UK).

Words near chiliastic in the dictionary

  1. chiliarchy
  2. chilias
  3. chiliasm
  4. chiliasms
  5. chiliast
  6. chiliastic
  7. chiliasts
  8. chiliaëdron
  9. chiliburger
  10. chiliburgers
  11. chilicote

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chiliastic (page history and authors); chiliastic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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