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the slow gravity of inevitability, dressed up like fate and twice as patient
means A grim, final fate — especially destruction, ruin, or death — felt as something certain and unavoidable.
from From Old English 'dom,' meaning a judgment, decree, or law — what a ruler or court 'deemed' to be so. The word 'deem' is its close kin, and 'doomsday' was literally 'judgment day,' the day the verdict comes due. Over centuries the sense darkened from any binding decision to specifically the worst one, so that 'doom' shifted from a judge's gavel to the sentence no one escapes.
- old meaning
- Once simply meant judgment or law, not disaster
- doomsday clock
- Set by atomic scientists, now 90 seconds to midnight
- doom the game
- Ported to printers, pregnancy tests, and ATMs
- book of doom
- England's Domesday Book recorded everything, irreversibly
- doomscrolling
- Made Oxford's word-of-year shortlist in 2020
doom eternal — id software's 2020 sequel with 61 metacritic score, sold over 3 million copies
original doom 1993 — john romero and john carmack's pioneering fps that launched the genre in december 1993
doom slayer — the main character/protagonist across the modern doom reboot series since 2016