catastrophist
Americannoun
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a person who expects or predicts large-scale social catastrophe, upheaval, or disaster, or who believes that significant societal change comes about only through such events.
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a person who believes in geological or biological catastrophism.
Example Sentences
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Studying France, it is always possible to strike a less "catastrophist" note.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
Do you still think of yourself as a catastrophist today?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
Diehl has become a social media star among the catastrophist set, drawing some 60,000 followers with his own crypto-warnings.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
I find it not merely catastrophist but fatalistic, communicating that humanity can at best merely teeter slightly toward and away from its own extinction.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2020
So that, under the influence of a great catastrophist, Lyell became the greatest of the uniformitarians, and more than any one man was the destroyer of the older point of view.
From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Sir Francis Darwin
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