Apocalypse and Reveleation

[blazeofglory]

I am really confused between these two terms, and this happened owing to the fact that I learned the English language and western culture much later in life and a such I have yet to identify myself with strings of words that are pretty ambigious at the root of them. I find looking at their origins or original meanings both are somewhat synonyms. Words with time tend to lose their original weights and meanings, and many words over time have been derogatory even if once they were words to denote something really good. In English the word gay has a different meaning than once it used to be a couple of decades ago. In India and Nepal, the Guru and Pandit were words to stand for men of learning or respectables. Today they have totally different meanings.

I more often come across these two words, Apocalypse and Reveleation and the first signifies destruction or doom’s day and the seocnd is still used in the same intensity and degree.

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[aabbcc]

They are synonimous, if you look at their literal meanings. Apocalypse (> apo-kaluptw, Greek, to reveal, unhide) was basically the same as Revelation; but since with time the word "apocalypse" started to be associated with destruction, today it is often used to mean that.

[Judas130]

i think also because of the book of Revalations in the Christian Bible and that, if read in its literal form, portraying an end of world scenario, Revelation(s) connotes with Apocalypse. As both words mean the same originally, both words now become similar in a slightly deviated way.