earthshaking
earths·ha·king
adjective
2.
sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
- “earthshaking proposals”
- “the contest was no world-shaking affair”
- “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
Origin
From earth + shaking as a calque of Ancient Greek ἐννοσίγαιος (ennosígaios), ἐνοσίχθων (enosíkhthōn).
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