Definition of "millenarianism" [mil•le•na•ri•an•ism]

• A belief that a major change is about to happen, based on 1000-year intervals. (noun)

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• "Another aspect of The Last Man's ambivalence towards millenarianism is seen in two episodes involving religious movements."
• "In this context, Ward makes some rather striking affirmations about "millenarianism" and considers that this understanding of the Book of Revelation is harder to reconcile with scientific cosmology than the young-earth creationist understanding of Genesis is."
• "Alex Steffen discusses how the idea of millenarianism has influenced our collective conception of the future and argues that "believing in a millennial future, or even frequently telling stories of such futures, blinds us both to what history teaches us about collapses and to what we know about our present moment."