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Meaning of catastrophism

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

catastrophism

noun

Definitions

  1. The doctrine that sudden catastrophes, rather than continuous change, cause the main features of the Earth's crust.

    Antonyms:uniformitarianism

  2. The practice or tendency of catastrophizing, regarding bad things as catastrophic.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catastrophism

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