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ahistoricism

noun

Etymology

From a- + historic + -ism.

  1. derived from ἱστορικός
  2. derived from historicus
  3. formed as ahistoricism — “a- + historic + -ism”

Definitions

  1. An attitude that tends to ignore history as being unimportant and having no relevance to…

    An attitude that tends to ignore history as being unimportant and having no relevance to modern life or decision making.

    • The lesbian reader most likely would favor reading The Well as a condemnation of heterosexual society, but we risk ahistoricism if we assume that the general audience of the 1920s uniformly received this message from Hall’s novel.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA