hemoclysm

== English == === Etymology === Coined by Matthew White (a historian) (see citation 1998, below), from hemo- + Ancient Greek κλυσμός (klusmós, “wash; flood”). === Noun === hemoclysm (plural hemoclysms) A violent and bloody conflict, a bloodbath; specifically (chiefly with capital initial), the period of the mid-twentieth century encompassing both world wars. [from 20th c.]