collapsitarian
Collocations
4ADJ.
complete, misanthropic
VERB + COLLAPSITARIAN
called
COLLAPSITARIAN + NOUN
spiel
ADV.
surely
Definitions
noun
A person who desires or predicts a social or economic collapse.
Kunstler resists the doomer label—“I’ve never been a complete collapsitarian,” he says—but the fact that one of his bombs detonates in Washington on “twelve twenty-one” is likely to please superstitious adherents of the Maya calendar, which concludes its first cycle on what is now the Internet’s most popular day of reckoning: December 21, 2012.
According to several self-styled collapsitarians, the world now faces a century of declines, the long emergency, environmental collapse, or peak everything.
adj
Desiring social or economic collapse.
Nowhere in the course of this collapsitarian spiel did there seem to be more than a cursory acknowledgment of the misery of mass unemployment and the vertigo that would befall a nation deprived of the foundations of its economy and cultural identity.
The Dark Mountain project offends a lot of people. It gets called defeatist, misanthropic, “collapsitarian.” But surely there is something in the air (and in the soil, and the ocean) these days.
Of or pertaining to collapsitarianism.
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4Kunstler resists the doomer label—“I’ve never been a complete collapsitarian,” he says—but the fact that one of his bombs detonates in Washington on “twelve twenty-one” is likely to please superstitio
WiktionaryAccording to several self-styled collapsitarians, the world now faces a century of declines, the long emergency, environmental collapse, or peak everything.
WiktionaryNowhere in the course of this collapsitarian spiel did there seem to be more than a cursory acknowledgment of the misery of mass unemployment and the vertigo that would befall a nation deprived of the
WiktionaryThe Dark Mountain project offends a lot of people. It gets called defeatist, misanthropic, “collapsitarian.” But surely there is something in the air (and in the soil, and the ocean) these days.
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