presentism

1. 1.

   the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled

   Broaderdoctrine

Other forms of presentism

plural

presentisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about presentism

What does presentism mean?

presentism means "the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled".

How many syllables are in presentism?

presentism has 3 syllables: pre-sen-tism. The stress falls on "pre".

Is presentism a common word?

presentism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.