millenarian

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ.
• Pertaining to any of various religious or social movements which believe in a coming radical change to existing world order.
• Lasting or expected to last a thousand years.

Noun

• A person who believes in an apocalyptic millennium.

Origin

• From millenarius + -an.