Anthropocene (English, name)
expansion: the Anthropocene
Senses:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A proposed but rejected geological epoch, in which the effect of human activities on the global environment has disrupted the natural variability of the Holocene, ending the Holocene. (It was rejected as formal scientific nomenclature in 2024 owing to not meeting a bar for how a geological epoch is formally defined.)
tags: formal
glosses: The era of human impact on the environment, irrespective of its nomenclatural status as a geological event or epoch; especially, the era of large impact (i.e., on industrial and postindustrial scale).
tags: broadly
informal
Forms:
form: the Anthropocene
tags: canonical