peri-apocalyptic

English

Alternative forms
  • periapocalyptic

Etymology

peri- (“near”) +‎ apocalyptic

Adjective

peri-apocalyptic (comparative more peri-apocalyptic, superlative most peri-apocalyptic)

  1. During an apocalypse
    • 2012 January 28, Peter Joseph Lewis, quoting Mathieu Gallant, “Mathieu Gallant - Outage”, in Why Did You Write That?‎:
      Outage is 150,000 word novel of a genre I’d call peri-apocalyptic. It’s not post-apocalyptic because it doesn’t take place after the “end of the world,” but during.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:peri-apocalyptic.

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