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ahistoricisms

ahistoricisms is the plural of ahistoricism.

Meaning of ahistoricism

Noun

ahistoricism (countable and uncountable, plural ahistoricisms)

  1. 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

Questions about ahistoricisms

What is ahistoricisms the plural of?
Ahistoricisms is the plural of ahistoricism.

Words near ahistoricisms in the dictionary

  1. ahistoric
  2. ahistorical
  3. ahistorically
  4. ahistoricalness
  5. ahistoricism
  6. ahistoricisms
  7. ahistoricity
  8. Ahithophel
  9. Ahithophels
  10. Ahitophel
  11. Ahitophels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ahistoricisms (page history and authors); ahistoricism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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