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post-historical

post-historical is the alternative spelling of posthistorical.

Meaning of posthistorical

Adjective

posthistorical (not comparable)

  1. Relating to posthistory.
    • While a minority of the human population will be, as Francis Fukuyama would put it, sufficiently sheltered so as to enter a "post-historical" realm, living in cities and suburbs in which the environment has been mastered and ethnic animosities have been quelled by bourgeois prosperity, […]1994 February, Robert D. Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy”, in The Atlantic

Questions about post-historical

What is post-historical the alternative spelling of?
Post-historical is the alternative spelling of posthistorical.

Words near post-historical in the dictionary

  1. post-graduate
  2. post-Gregg
  3. post-grunge
  4. post-hardcore
  5. post-haste
  6. post-historical
  7. post-Hittite
  8. post-Hittites
  9. post-Homeric
  10. post-horn
  11. post-horns

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