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metahistorical

metahistorical adjective: relating to metahistory.

Adjective

metahistorical (not comparable)

  1. Relating to metahistory.
    • Like revisionist historical novels, metahistorical novels propose two stories, one set in the past, the other in the present.2021, Ina Bergmann, quoting Daniel Candel Bormann, The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction, Routledge, →ISBN

Origin of metahistorical

From meta- + historical.

Words formed from metahistorical

Questions about metahistorical

What does metahistorical mean?
Metahistorical means relating to metahistory.
What part of speech is metahistorical?
Metahistorical is an adjective.

Words near metahistorical in the dictionary

  1. metahexamide
  2. metahistogram
  3. metahistograms
  4. metahistorian
  5. metahistorians
  6. metahistorical
  7. metahistorical romance
  8. metahistories
  9. metahistory
  10. metahohmannite
  11. metahuman

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