Extinctionist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Extinctionist is a noun meaning An advocate of extinctionism.
Meaning
An advocate of extinctionism.
More Meanings
- (video games) A player who plays a roguelike game with the additional challenge of killing all creatures to extinction.
- Relating to extinctionism.
Example Sentences
Hamas has embraced the nihilism of the suicide bomber, of rockets fired blindly into towns, and the nihilism of the extinctionist policy towards Israel.
What an Extinctionist tries to do is completely eliminate as many kinds of monsters from the game as possible, either through genocide if it's available, or from just depleting all the kinds of monsters that can be produced.
The Voluntary Human Extinctionists among you would no doubt be thrilled. But how would that affect the remainder of your life? Knowing that yours is the last “batch” of humans, would your actions, your striving, still even make sense?
Although Last Ones Left Alive courts comparison with Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven, it doesn’t deliver that novel’s transcendent sense of art’s absurd persistence. It lacks the extinctionist glee of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy.
Word Forms
- extinctionists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include exterminationist, eliminationist, exclusivist, annihilationist, extropian, evolutionist.
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