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ahistorical

US/ˌeɪhɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/

ahistorical adjective: lacking historical perspective or context.

Adjective

ahistorical (comparative more ahistorical, superlative most ahistorical)

  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.1925, The New Yorker, volume 51, page 32
    • 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...2017 May, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine
    Synonyms:
    ahistoric
  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.2002 June 17, Jussi Hanska, Strategies of Sanity and Survival: Religious Responses to Natural Disasters in the Middle Ages, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, →ISBN, page 38

Synonyms of ahistorical

Forms of ahistorical

comparativemore ahistorical
superlativemost ahistorical

Origin of ahistorical

From a- + historical or ahistoric + -al.

Words formed from ahistorical

Questions about ahistorical

What does ahistorical mean?
Ahistorical means lacking historical perspective or context.
What part of speech is ahistorical?
Ahistorical is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ahistorical?
Ahistorical is pronounced /ˌeɪhɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/ (US).

Words near ahistorical in the dictionary

  1. Ahir
  2. Ahirman
  3. Ahirs
  4. ahis
  5. ahistoric
  6. ahistorical
  7. ahistorically
  8. ahistoricalness
  9. ahistoricism
  10. ahistoricisms
  11. ahistoricity

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