eschatology

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Scatology and eschatology are often hard to distinguish, since they both deal with end products.

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  1. noun The branch of theology that is concerned with the end of the world or of humankind.
  2. noun A belief or a doctrine concerning the ultimate or final things, such as death, the destiny of humanity, the Second Coming, or the Last Judgment.

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  • The eschatology which rests upon an English poem and an Indian fable belongs to the realm of reverie and of imagination rather than the domain of reason. —  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Scatology and eschatology are often hard to distinguish, since they both deal with end products. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVI No 2
  • Associations with bodily functions and scatology (a word sometimes confused with eschatology, thus rendering the latter, in those cases, quasi malediction) have produced such examples as: crapulence/crapulous, shittah, piscine, pisiform, piscatology, epistemology, fasces, infarct/infarction, and mensuration. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
  • "When we get back to the Four Lands," he began and stopped. —  Morgawr
  • He responded, which I was honored by, and didn't really answer the question, but simply stated the his eschatology is the right one. —  Hip and Thigh
 

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  1. Greek eskhatos, last; see eghs in Indo-European roots + -logy.

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  1. from Greek ἒσχατος, furthest, uttermost, extreme, last (το\ ἒσχατον, the end), prob. transposed from *ἒξατος, superlative of ἒξ, out (cf. utmost, uttermost, superlative of out), + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see-ology.
 

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/ɛskəˈtɑlədʒi/
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