ahistorical

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
17
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˌeɪhɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/

Definition of ahistorical

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Lacking historical perspective or context.
    “Students are profoundly ahistorical now, and I think they need to work out the notion of how their own environment, over time, has shaped their lives.”
    “Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it.”
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adj

  1. Lacking historical perspective or context.
    “Students are profoundly ahistorical now, and I think they need to work out the notion of how their own environment, over time, has shaped their lives.”
    “Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it.”
  2. Not historically true or accurate; unsupported by historical evidence.
    “The American historian John van Engen argues that Le Goff's and Schmitt's idea of a semi-pagan medieval Europe filled with remnants of 'Indo-European folklore' is rather dogmatic and ahistorical.”

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Etymology

From a- + historical or ahistoric + -al.

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