catastrophism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.34 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
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2
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10
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Meaning
noun
The doctrine that sudden catastrophes, rather than continuous change, cause the main features of the Earth's crust.
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noun
The doctrine that, in addition to the more gradual effects of evolution, huge catastrophic events shape the earth's flora and fauna by causing major die-offs which make way for the emergence of new organisms.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The practice or tendency of catastrophizing, regarding bad things as catastrophic.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A therapeutic programme based on pain education showed significant improvements regarding pain intensity, disability, catastrophism, depression, anxiety and health, with few positive results on anguish and cognition."
- "However, we did not obtain significant relationships with pain catastrophizing. […] On the contrary, catastrophism is measured in a general context, with no motivational context, and without related situations where goals can compete."
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catastrophist
anastrophism