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eschatological

eschatological

3 9.9
Describes ideas about the end of the world and people's final destiny, often in religion
  • adjective
  • /ˌɛs.kə.təˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/
  • Formal
translation icon : escatológico
  • Finally, many of his poems deal with eschatological concerns, death, and ultimate things.
  • eschatological anxiety
  • eschatological vision
  • eschatological speculation

Examples

  • Personal death replaced the first-century expectation of the apocalypse as the catalyst of eschatological anxiety.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Many religions share an eschatological outlook, discussing the end of the world and what lies beyond.

  • Each of them, at times, has rather traditional things to say about eschatological punishment.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The danger of eschatological thinking is the danger of eschatological results.

    Academic text (1995)
  • There is something deeply eschatological about the forgiveness of sin.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The founding gift of the Spirit opened up the church's eschatological future in a way that the resurrection by itself did not.

    Academic text (2008)
  • And yet, the ascetical lifetime also offered a means of negotiating this eschatological anxiety.

    Academic text (2008)
  • One is his macrohistorical, indeed eschatological, vision of the transition from feudalism to capitalism.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Evangelical responses to the crisis of everyday life can be explained in part by evangelicals' eschatological vision.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Put simply, Bernldez's history takes on an identifiable narrativity and is linked to a final sense of eschatological closure.

    Academic text (2002)

Synonyms

apocalyptic
vseschatological
61 8.6

Relating to great damage and chaos like the end of the world

focuses on theological or philosophical discussion of humanity's ultimate destiny
apocalyptical
vseschatological
9.4

Describing a future with great destruction and the end of the world

focuses on abstract human destiny in theology or philosophy rather than prediction

Surface Forms

eschatological positive

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.