peri-apocalyptic
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Etymology edit
peri- (“near”) + apocalyptic
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peri-apocalyptic (comparative more peri-apocalyptic, superlative most peri-apocalyptic)
- During an apocalypse
- 2012 January 28, Peter Joseph Lewis, quoting Mathieu Gallant, “Mathieu Gallant - Outage”, in Why Did You Write That?[1]:
- 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.