eschatology

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: es=cha=tol=o=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

eschatology, n. [Gr. the furthest, last + -logy.].

 The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

eschatology, n. the part of theology concerned with death and final destiny.

Derivative

eschatological adj. eschatologist n.

Etymology

Gk eskhatos last + -LOGY

THESAURUS

eschatology

Buddhology, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Mariolatry, Mariology, Mercersburg theology, Z, apodosis, apologetics, canonics, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, crisis theology, culmination, curtain, curtains, day of doom, death, decease, denouement, destination, destiny, dialogical theology, divinity, doctrinalism, doctrinism, dogmatics, doom, doomsday, effect, end, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, existential theology, expiration, fate, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis, finish, goal, hagiography, hagiology, hierology, izzard, last, last breath, last days, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, logos Christology, logos theology, natural theology, neoorthodox theology, neoorthodoxy, omega, patristic theology, payoff, period, peroration, phenomenological theology, physicotheology, quietus, rationalism, religion, resolution, resting place, scholastic theology, secularism, soteriology, stoppage, stopping place, swan song, systematics, term, terminal, termination, terminus, the Judgment, theology, trump of doom, windup

ROGET THESAURUS

eschatology

End

N end, close, termination, desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega, extreme, extremity, gable end, butt end, fag-end, tip, nib, point, tail, verge, tag, peroration, bonne bouche, bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard, consummation, denouement, finish, fate, doom, doomsday, crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain, goal, destination, limit, determination, expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination, death, end of all things, finality, eschatology, break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point, coup de grace, deathblow, knock-out-blow, sockdolager, ending, final, terminal, definitive, crowning, last, ultimate, hindermost, rear, caudal, vergent, conterminate, conterminous, conterminable, ended, at an end, settled, decided, over, played out, set at rest, conclusive, penultimate, last but one, last but two, unbegun, uncommenced, fresh, finally, in fine, at the last, once for all, as high as Heaven and as deep as hell, deficit omne quod nascitur, en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, finem respice, ultimus Romanorum.