different between millennium vs millenarianism

English

Alternative forms

• millenium (archaic)

Etymology

From Late Latin millennium, from Latin m?lle (“thousand”) + -ennium (from annus (“year”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l?n??m/

Noun

millennium (plural millennia or millenniums)

1. A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
2. (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
3. A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
4. (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.

Synonyms

• yearthousand
• kiloyear (kyr)
• kiloannum (ka)

Derived terms

• decamillennium
• centimillennium
• millennial
• millennium bug
• millionennium

Translations

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil?ni?m/, [mi?l?n?i?m]

Noun

millennium n (singular definite millenniet, plural indefinite millennier)

1. millennium

Inflection

Synonyms

• årtusinde

Further reading

• millennium on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?llennium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?l?.ni.?m/
• Hyphenation: mil?len?ni?um

Noun

millennium n (plural millennia, diminutive milleniumtje n)

1. millennium

Latin

Etymology

From m?lle and annus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mi?l?len.ni.um/, [mi?l??l??n?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mil?len.ni.um/, [mil?l?n?ium]

Noun

m?llennium n (genitive m?llenni? or m?llenn?); second declension

1. millennium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

millennium n (definite singular millenniet, indefinite plural millennier, definite plural millennia or millenniene)

1. millennium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

millennium n (definite singular millenniet, indefinite plural millennium, definite plural millennia)

1. millennium

Swedish

Noun

millennium n

1. a millennium, a period of one thousand years

Declension

Synonyms

• årtusende

See also

• år
• århundrade
• årtionde
• decennium
• sekel

English

Etymology

From millenarian +? -ism. Compare millenarism, millennianism.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?l??n?????n?z?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?l??n??i?n?z?m/

Noun

millenarianism (countable and uncountable, plural millenarianisms)

1. A belief in a coming religious millennium, especially (Christianity) the belief in a coming thousand-year reign of peace heralded by the Second Coming of Christ; utopianism, belief in a coming era of peace and prosperity. [from 19th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 139:

     It is hard to say for certain just why this brief but notable shift from passive to active millenarianism should have occurred during the Interregnum.

Synonyms

• chiliasm