millennialism

[ mi-len-ee-uh-liz-uhm ]

noun

1. a belief in the millennium.

Other Words From

• mil·lenni·al·ist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of millennialism¹

First recorded in 1905–10; millennial + -ism

Example Sentences

The far right is driven fully by this sense of millennialism, this questing after the end, and it only takes a small group of people committed to apocalypse to actually bring it to fruition in the form of mass shootings, bombings and other racist horrors.

From Salon

There's also a connection between Bitcoin and millennialism, or the belief in a coming collective salvation for a select group of people.

From Salon

Perhaps to showcase Nina’s overt millennialism, Waxman tends to overuse capitalization-to-make-a-point.

From Washington Post

Other scholars have traced this mishmash of mind cures, millennialism, mesmerism, spiritualism, theosophy and other strains of pseudoscience and mysticism.

From New York Times

He was also a registered Republican who grew up in a small Mormon community in rural Virginia where millennialism, or end-times theology, was a core concept.

From New York Times