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paleofantasy

noun

Etymology

From paleo- + fantasy, introduced by Marlene Zuk as the title of her book criticising paleodiets.

  1. derived from fantasier
  2. inherited from fantasien
  3. derived from *bʰh₂nyéti✻
  4. derived from φαντασία
  5. derived from phantasia
  6. derived from fantasie
  7. inherited from fantasie
  8. prefixed as paleofantasy — “paleo + fantasy”

Definitions

  1. A fantasy about how things were in the distant or geological past.

    • That’s just a paleofantasy about the future.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for paleofantasy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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