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counterfactualism

noun

Etymology

From counterfactual + -ism.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁-✻
  2. derived from factum
  3. derived from fact
  4. suffixed as factual — “fact + ual”
  5. prefixed as counterfactual — “counter- + factual”
  6. suffixed as counterfactualism — “counterfactual + ism”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of counterfactuality.

    • Gavriel D. Rosenfeld has devoted an entire book to a discussion of WWII counterfactualism: The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism.

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