millennialism

American  

[mi-len-ee-uh-liz-uhm] / mɪˈlɛn i əˌlɪz əm /

noun

1. a belief in the millennium.

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Other Word Forms

• millennialist noun

Etymology

Origin of millennialism

First recorded in 1905–10; millennial + -ism

Example Sentences

There's also a connection between Bitcoin and millennialism, or the belief in a coming collective salvation for a select group of people.

From Salon

Perhaps to showcase Nina’s overt millennialism, Waxman tends to overuse capitalization-to-make-a-point.

From Washington Post

Other scholars have traced this mishmash of mind cures, millennialism, mesmerism, spiritualism, theosophy and other strains of pseudoscience and mysticism.

From New York Times

He was also a registered Republican who grew up in a small Mormon community in rural Virginia where millennialism, or end-times theology, was a core concept.

From New York Times

Though he travels under the flag of blue millennialism, his positions are decidedly centrist—an orientation that seems to serve him well in the district.

From The New Yorker