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collapsitarianism

collapsitarianism noun: desire to see, or belief that one will see, a social or economic collapse.

Noun

collapsitarianism (uncountable)

  1. Desire to see, or belief that one will see, a social or economic collapse.
    • To its adherents, collapsitarianism suggests a giddy liberation from hope, from futile shoring up of ailing economies like Detroit’s and the Sunbelt’s, from bailouts and stimulus plans and climate change and toxic-asset recovery.2009, Virginia Heffernan, “Apocalypse Ciao: Let the End Times Roll”, in Mother Jones
    • The Southern Reach books imaginatively figure this contact. The beauty of the books is that they let the other side win. They offer a collapsitarianism in reverse.2014, David Tompkins, “Weird Ecology: On The Southern Reach Trilogy”, in Los Angeles Review of Books

Questions about collapsitarianism

What does collapsitarianism mean?
Collapsitarianism means desire to see, or belief that one will see, a social or economic collapse.
What part of speech is collapsitarianism?
Collapsitarianism is a noun.

Words near collapsitarianism in the dictionary

  1. collapsins
  2. collapsion
  3. collapsions
  4. collapsism
  5. collapsitarian
  6. collapsitarianism
  7. collapsitarians
  8. collapsium
  9. collapsogram
  10. collapsograms
  11. collapsologist

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