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nonhistory

nonhistory noun: that which is not history.

Noun

nonhistory (usually uncountable, plural nonhistories)

  1. (usually) That which is not history.
    • Their works, despite a laudable attempt to break the impasse we have seen in writing text-based histories of ancient Israel, are essentially nonhistories.2001, William G Dever, What did the biblical writers know, and when did they know it?

Forms of nonhistory

pluralnonhistories

Origin of nonhistory

From non- + history.

Questions about nonhistory

What does nonhistory mean?
Nonhistory means that which is not history.
What part of speech is nonhistory?
Nonhistory is a noun.
What is the plural of nonhistory?
The plural of nonhistory is nonhistories.

Words near nonhistory in the dictionary

  1. nonhistoric
  2. nonhistorical
  3. nonhistorically
  4. nonhistories
  5. nonhistoriographic
  6. nonhistory
  7. nonhit
  8. nonhits
  9. nonhobbyist
  10. nonhobbyists
  11. nonhockey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nonhistory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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