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counterfactuality

counterfactuality noun: the quality of being counterfactual.

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

Forms of counterfactuality

pluralcounterfactualities

Origin of counterfactuality

From counterfactual + -ity.

Questions about counterfactuality

What does counterfactuality mean?
Counterfactuality means the quality of being counterfactual.
What part of speech is counterfactuality?
Counterfactuality is a noun.
What is the plural of counterfactuality?
The plural of counterfactuality is counterfactualities.

Words near counterfactuality in the dictionary

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

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