OXFORD 9000
📚 name • entry_id 48385

Anthropocene

/ˈæn.θɹə.pəˌsiːn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
Antropoceno
The era of human impact on the environment, irrespective of its nomenclatural status as a geological event or epoch; especially, the era of large impact (i.e., on industrial and postindustrial scale).
Holonyms: Holocene (current epoch) < Quaternary (current period), Age of Man (dated)
Meronym: assholocene (informal)
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