catastrophism (English, noun)
expansion: catastrophism (countable and uncountable, plural catastrophisms)
Senses:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The doctrine that sudden catastrophes, rather than continuous change, cause the main features of the Earth's crust.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The doctrine that, in addition to the more gradual effects of evolution, huge catastrophic events shape the earth's flora and fauna by causing major die-offs which make way for the emergence of new organisms.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: The practice or tendency of catastrophizing, regarding bad things as catastrophic.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: catastrophisms
tags: plural