ahistorical

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ historical or ahistoric +‎ -al.

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ahistorical (comparative more ahistorical, superlative most ahistorical)

  1. Lacking historical perspective or context.
    Synonym: ahistoric
    • 1925, The New Yorker, volume 51, page 32:
      Students are profoundly ahistorical now, and I think they need to work out the notion of how their own environment, over time, has shaped their lives.
    • 2017 May, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine[1]:
      Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it.

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