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doomsday cult

noun

Etymology

Coined by American sociologist John Lofland in 1966 in his book Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith

Definitions

  1. A cult that believes in apocalypticism and millenarianism.

  2. a group that has lost touch with reality.

    • This raised doubts about their competence and, indeed, their connection to reality; it’s never good when economists at major banks declare that a country’s ruling party has become a doomsday cult.

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