[Fiji Hill]

Another pet peeve of mine is the misuse of “apocalypse” to mean calamity or catastrophe, when the word actually means disclosure.

[Larry Lucido]

“apocalypse” to mean calamity or catastrophe, when the word actually means disclosure.

"Disclosure Now"?

[Sherman Logan]

You do know how it got that meaning?

The Bible book of Revelation, which means the same as Apocalypse, roughly, is full of accounts of catastrophes.

So apocalypse came to mean catastrophe.

The original meaning has been, I think, utterly forgotten.