eschaton

[ es-kuh-ton ]

noun

1. Theology. the final age and the consummation of history, including the Last Judgment and the defeat of evil, the eternal blessedness of the righteous, and, in some traditions, the creation of a new heaven and earth:

   True peace and justice will be fully realized only at the eschaton.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eschaton¹

Coined in 1935 by theologian C. Dodd (1884–1973); from Greek éschaton, neuter of éschatos “last” ( eschatology ( def ) )

Example Sentences

“This is the eschaton through lack of access, but also through human atrophy, debility, the desuetude of critical function.”

From New York Times

This is the eschaton through lack of access, but also through human atrophy, debility, the desuetude of critical function.

From New York Times

“Google and the Silicon Valley people also imagine that their artificial intelligence, their machine learning, their cloud computing, is an eschaton—another ‘end of history’ moment.

From Wall Street Journal

It filled men with thoughts of divinity, but its promise of final deliverance, or “eschaton,” bred impatient dreams of secular cities of God, built here and now.

From The New Yorker

His email signature: “Eternally your servant in the escalation of entropy and eschaton.”

From Time