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peri-apocalyptic en · ADJ

Etymology

From peri- (“near”) + apocalyptic.

Meanings

1. During an apocalypse.
   • 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. 2012 January 28, Peter Joseph Lewis, quoting Mathieu Gallant, “Mathieu Gallant - Outage”, in Why Did You Write That?:

Forms

Coordinates

postapocalyptic · preapocalyptic