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allohistorical

Syllables: al·lo·his·tor·ic·alUK/alə(ʊ)ˌhɪˈstɒɹɪkəl//æləˌhɪˈstɔːɹɪkəl/

allohistorical adjective: relating to alternate history, either as a discipline or genre, or as a specific counterfactual sequence of events.

Adjective

allohistorical (not comparable)

  1. Relating to alternate history, either as a discipline or genre, or as a specific counterfactual sequence of events.
    • If [Alexander] Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.2005, Gavriel D[avid] Rosenfeld, “Germany’s Wartime Triumph: From Dystopia to Normalcy”, in The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire...
    • Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the...2014, Robert von Dassanowsky, “Dr. ‘King’ Schultz as Ideologue and Emblem: The German Enlightenment and the Legacy of the 1848 Revolutions in Django Unchained”, in Oliver C. Speck, editor, Quentin...

Origin of allohistorical

From allo- (prefix meaning ‘different, other’) + historical.

Questions about allohistorical

What does allohistorical mean?
Allohistorical means relating to alternate history, either as a discipline or genre, or as a specific counterfactual sequence of events.
What part of speech is allohistorical?
Allohistorical is an adjective.
How do you pronounce allohistorical?
Allohistorical is pronounced /alə(ʊ)ˌhɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/ (UK).

Words near allohistorical in the dictionary

  1. allohaploids
  2. allohexaploid
  3. allohexaploidization
  4. allohexaploids
  5. allohexaploidy
  6. allohistorical
  7. allohistories
  8. allohistory
  9. allohormonal
  10. allohormone
  11. allohormones

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