post-apocalyptic
adjEtymology From post- + apocalyptic.
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Occurring after an apocalypse or catastrophic event.
- Many of us feel the imminence of breakdown so acutely that we cope by entertaining ourselves with various versions of life in a post-apocalyptic bunker, streaming Apple’s Silo or Hulu’s Paradise.2025 April 13, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, “The rise of end times fascism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
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Of or pertaining to a fiction genre dealing with the collapse of society.
- Stephen King is an author of post-apocalyptic fiction.