collapsitarians

Noun

collapsitarian (plural collapsitarians)

1. A person who desires or predicts a social or economic collapse.
   • Kunstler resists the doomer label—“I’ve never been a complete collapsitarian,” he says—but the fact that one of his bombs detonates in Washington on “twelve twenty-one” is likely to please superstitious adherents of the Maya calendar, which concludes its first cycle on what is now the Internet’s...2009, Ben McGrath, “The Dystopians”, in The New Yorker

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