paleofantasy

English

Alternative forms

  • paleo-fantasy

Etymology

From paleo- +‎ fantasy, introduced by Marlene Zuk as the title of her book criticising paleodiets.

Noun

paleofantasy (plural paleofantasies)

  1. (rare) A fantasy about how things were in the distant or geological past.
    • 2009 January 20, Marlene Zuk, “The Evolutionary Search for Our Perfect Past”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      That’s just a paleofantasy about the future.
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