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posthistory

posthistory noun: the history of events that occur after (and are consequences of) an event (e.g. a crisis, a reconciliation, etc).

Noun

posthistory (countable and uncountable, plural posthistories)

  1. The history of events that occur after (and are consequences of) an event (e.g. a crisis, a reconciliation, etc).
    • The Christmas messages of Pope and Patriarch on the holy night of 1965 are the first documents in the posthistory of that day.1987, Principles of Catholic Theology, →ISBN, page 207
  2. The history after the end of human developments.

Antonyms of posthistory

Forms of posthistory

pluralposthistories

Origin of posthistory

From post- + history.

Questions about posthistory

What does posthistory mean?
Posthistory means the history of events that occur after (and are consequences of) an event (e.g. a crisis, a reconciliation, etc).
What part of speech is posthistory?
Posthistory is a noun.
What is the plural of posthistory?
The plural of posthistory is posthistories.

Words near posthistory in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: posthistory (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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