Ahistoricism
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An attitude that tends to ignore history as being unimportant and having no relevance to modern life or decision making. countable, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From a- + historic + -ism.
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