cataclasmn.
/ˈkatəklaz(ə)m/ A break or disruption.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > violent disruption
cataclasm1829
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 201 The cataclasms of the moral and social world.
1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 224 The history of the human race is but a parenthesis between two cataclasms of the globe which it inhabits.
1870 F. C. Bowen Logic ix. 301 To suppose that there was any Cataclasm, any violent disruption of what is the usual course of nature.
Derivatives
cataˈclasmic adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] > relating to a violent disruption
cataclasmic1888
1888 H. S. Holland Christ or Eccles. 37 Something abrupt, violent, cataclasmic.
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