eschatological
- adjective
- /ˌɛs.kə.təˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/
- Formal
- Finally, many of his poems deal with eschatological concerns, death, and ultimate things.
- eschatological anxiety
- eschatological vision
- eschatological speculation
Examples
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Personal death replaced the first-century expectation of the apocalypse as the catalyst of eschatological anxiety.
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Many religions share an eschatological outlook, discussing the end of the world and what lies beyond.
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Each of them, at times, has rather traditional things to say about eschatological punishment.
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The danger of eschatological thinking is the danger of eschatological results.
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There is something deeply eschatological about the forgiveness of sin.
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The founding gift of the Spirit opened up the church's eschatological future in a way that the resurrection by itself did not.
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And yet, the ascetical lifetime also offered a means of negotiating this eschatological anxiety.
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One is his macrohistorical, indeed eschatological, vision of the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
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Evangelical responses to the crisis of everyday life can be explained in part by evangelicals' eschatological vision.
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Put simply, Bernldez's history takes on an identifiable narrativity and is linked to a final sense of eschatological closure.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
Relating to great damage and chaos like the end of the world
Describing a future with great destruction and the end of the world
Surface Forms
Morphology
eschatological = eschatology (semi-transparent) = eschat + ology + ical
The adjective is regularly formed from the technical noun 'eschatology' with -ical, but the base word itself is specialized and not widely familiar to average learners.
Etymology
Eschatological comes from the Greek root eschatos meaning 'last' and the ending -logy, as in biology, meaning 'study'. So it describes ideas about the 'last' things, like the end of the world or the final destiny of people.