presentist
adjEtymology
From present + -ist.
Definitions
Of or pertaining to presentism
Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs.
- Many people lost their perspective in their euphoria and became parochial and presentist.
- To read him as defensively fashioning what we now call a "black identity" is presentist.
- One aspiration is to mark a particularly momentous year in American history. Another is to combat the presentist bias that harms our ability to see clearly today.
A follower of presentism.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA