-azəm noun
( -s )
Etymology: New Latin chiliasmus, from Late Latin chiliastes chiliast (after such pairs as Greek enthousiastēs enthusiast: enthousiasmos enthusiasm), from ( assumed ) Greek chiliastēs, from chilioi thousand
: the theological doctrine that Christ will come to earth in a visible form and set up a theocratic kingdom over all the world and thus usher in the millennium