ahistoricism
ahistoricism noun: an attitude that tends to ignore history as being unimportant and having no relevance to modern life or decision making.
Noun
ahistoricism (countable and uncountable, plural ahistoricisms)
- An attitude that tends to ignore history as being unimportant and having no relevance to modern life or decision making.
- The lesbian reader most likely would favor reading The Well as a condemnation of heterosexual society, but we risk ahistoricism if we assume that the general audience of the 1920s uniformly received this message from Hall’s novel.1997, Sherrie A. Inness, The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life, Univ of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 24
Forms of ahistoricism
| plural | ahistoricisms |
|---|---|
| alternative form | anhistoricism |
Origin of ahistoricism
From a- + historic + -ism.
Questions about ahistoricism
- What does ahistoricism mean?
- Ahistoricism means an attitude that tends to ignore history as being unimportant and having no relevance to modern life or decision making.
- What part of speech is ahistoricism?
- Ahistoricism is a noun.
- What is the plural of ahistoricism?
- The plural of ahistoricism is ahistoricisms.
Words near ahistoricism in the dictionary
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