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counterfactualities

counterfactualities is the plural of counterfactuality.

Meaning of counterfactuality

Noun

counterfactuality (countable and uncountable, plural counterfactualities)

  1. The quality of being counterfactual.
    • Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a...2004 September 5, Laura Miller, “Imagine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2021

Questions about counterfactualities

What is counterfactualities the plural of?
Counterfactualities is the plural of counterfactuality.

Words near counterfactualities in the dictionary

  1. counterfactual
  2. counterfactual conditional
  3. counterfactualism
  4. counterfactualist
  5. counterfactualists
  6. counterfactualities
  7. counterfactuality
  8. counterfactualization
  9. counterfactualizations
  10. counterfactualize
  11. counterfactualized

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