The word apocalypse is actually a Greek word meaning a revealing or uncovering.

apocalypse (əˈpɒkəlɪps)

1. a prophetic disclosure or revelation

2. an event of great importance, violence, etc, like the events described in the Apocalypse

[C13: from Late Latin apocalypsis, from Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein to disclose, from apo- + kaluptein to hide]

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