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posthistorical

posthistorical adjective: relating to posthistory.

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

Forms of posthistorical

alternative formpost-historical

Origin of posthistorical

From post- + historical.

Questions about posthistorical

What does posthistorical mean?
Posthistorical means relating to posthistory.
What part of speech is posthistorical?
Posthistorical is an adjective.

Words near posthistorical in the dictionary

  1. posthiotomizes
  2. posthiotomizing
  3. posthiotomy
  4. posthippie
  5. posthippocampal
  6. posthistorical
  7. posthistories
  8. posthistory
  9. posthitis
  10. posthoc
  11. posthockery

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