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counter-interpretation

counter-interpretation is the alternative form of counterinterpretation.

Meaning of counterinterpretation

Noun

counterinterpretation (countable and uncountable, plural counterinterpretations)

  1. An interpretation that goes against another interpretation.
    • I ask because when historians of any era run out of new things to say, they inevitably turn to a counterinterpretation.2009 April 9, “The New Deal Revisionists: Will They Ever Learn?”, in New York Times

Forms of counter-interpretation

pluralcounter-interpretations

Questions about counter-interpretation

What is counter-interpretation the alternative form of?
Counter-interpretation is the alternative form of counterinterpretation.

Words near counter-interpretation in the dictionary

  1. counter-inflation
  2. counter-intelligence
  3. counter-intention
  4. counter-intentions
  5. counter-internationalism
  6. counter-interpretation
  7. counter-interpretations
  8. counter-intuitive
  9. counter-Koranic
  10. counter-liberal
  11. counter-loan

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