END-TIMES Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

end-times

noun

plural of end-time

as in apocalypses

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Noun

There are some apocalypses, the song seems to suggest, where no redemptive beauty can be found.

— Marissa Lorusso, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
There’s a lot of apocalypses happening now in this world, major ones.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of apocalypses

Noun

The protagonist becomes a wise-guy version of Benjamin’s Angel of History, watching calamities accumulate before his eyes.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of calamities

Noun

At the same time, as the extreme heat and wildfires this year showed us, climate disasters are taking lives and inflicting economic losses on a scale that governments can no longer afford to ignore.

— Laurence Tubiana, Time, 6 Nov. 2026
Their power persisted despite proliferating school shootings, the devastating failures of the state’s electrical grid, the preventable deaths of pregnant women, and other scandals, disasters, and tragedies.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of disasters

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Since Benson and her co-authors met in Oviedo, weather catastrophes have multiplied, oceans have acidified and the amount of carbon in the atmosphere has soared.

— Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
With that in mind, here’s a look at three new books shaped by catastrophes large and small.

— Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of catastrophes

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