peri-apocalyptic

English

Alternative forms

• periapocalyptic

Etymology

From peri- (“near”) +‎ apocalyptic.

Adjective

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

1. During an apocalypse.

   Coordinate terms: preapocalyptic, postapocalyptic

   • 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.