allohistory
UK/alə(ʊ)ˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/US/æləˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/
allohistory noun: synonym of alternate history.
Noun
allohistory (usually uncountable, plural allohistories)
- Synonym of alternate history.
- But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a...2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103
- […]the early twenty-second century in a timeline where the atomic bomb that instilled such dread in Royland never materialized, resulting in an Axis victory. Over fifty years old now, "Two Dooms" predated Philip K. Dick's more famous World War II allohistory, The Man in the High Castle by three...2015 July 19, Nader Elhefnawy, After the New Wave: Science Fiction Today, pages 46–47
- Synonyms:
- alternate history, alternative history
Examples of allohistory in a sentence
- But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways.2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:
- Dick's more famous World War II allohistory, The Man in the High Castle by three years.2015 July 19, Nader Elhefnawy, After the New Wave: Science Fiction Today, pages 46–47:
- As with allohistory, a large range of texts can be deemed alloliterary in nature, with the three primary types of alloliterature aligning with the three types of allohistory:[…]2018 January 19, Brett Carol Young, “"The great change in human history": The Recasting of the Fall of Man as the Crisis of Faith in His...
Synonyms of allohistory
Forms of allohistory
| plural | allohistories |
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Origin of allohistory
From allo- + history.
Questions about allohistory
- What does allohistory mean?
- Allohistory means synonym of alternate history.
- How do you use allohistory in a sentence?
- But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways.
- What part of speech is allohistory?
- Allohistory is a noun.
- How do you pronounce allohistory?
- Allohistory is pronounced /alə(ʊ)ˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of allohistory?
- The plural of allohistory is allohistories.
Words near allohistory in the dictionary
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