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counterfactualism

counterfactualism noun: synonym of counterfactuality.

Noun

counterfactualism (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of counterfactuality.
    • Gavriel D. Rosenfeld has devoted an entire book to a discussion of WWII counterfactualism: The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism.2012, Robert von Dassanowsky, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema, page 287

Synonyms of counterfactualism

Origin of counterfactualism

From counterfactual + -ism.

Questions about counterfactualism

What does counterfactualism mean?
Counterfactualism means synonym of counterfactuality.
What part of speech is counterfactualism?
Counterfactualism is a noun.

Words near counterfactualism in the dictionary

  1. counterfactor
  2. counterfactors
  3. counterfacts
  4. counterfactual
  5. counterfactual conditional
  6. counterfactualism
  7. counterfactualist
  8. counterfactualists
  9. counterfactualities
  10. counterfactuality
  11. counterfactualization

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