ahistoricism

English

Alternative forms

  • anhistoricism

Etymology

From a- +‎ historic +‎ -ism.

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Noun

ahistoricism (countable and uncountable, plural ahistoricisms)

  1. An attitude that tends to ignore history as being unimportant and having no relevance to modern life or decision making.
    • 1997, Sherrie A. Inness, The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life‎[1], Univ of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 24:
      The lesbian reader most likely would favor reading The Well as a condemnation of heterosexual society, but we risk ahistoricism if we assume that the general audience of the 1920s uniformly received this message from Hall’s novel.

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