counterfactuality

English

Etymology

From counterfactual +‎ -ity.

Noun

counterfactuality (countable and uncountable, plural counterfactualities)

  1. The quality of being counterfactual.
    • 2004 September 5, Laura Miller, “Imagine”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 July 2021:
      Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a particular event had happened otherwise.
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