“The Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Tabo is covered in white plaster and had been in continuous operation for almost exactly a millennium.”
“As far as this particular millennium can go temporally, these books are a kind of natural expression of that.”
“But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers, and no one believes that such a state of things as we now live in is the millennium.”
millenarianism
A belief in a coming religious millennium, especially (Christianity) the belief in a coming thousand-year reign of peace heralded by the Second Coming of Christ; utopianism, belief in a coming era of peace and prosperity. [from 19th c.]
“Their commitment to improving the human lot through a fuller knowledge of nature was closely connected with their millenarianism.”
“Thompson expertly unravels a tangled tale suffused with Victorian mores, millenarianism and frontier idealism.”
“Because of its concern with imminent change, millenarianism appealed to radical reformers and could be secularized into utopianism.”
millennial
A demographic term for a person from the generation born from around the early 1980's to the mid 1990's or early 2000's; individuals who reached adulthood early in the 3rd millennium, AD.