Antihistory

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Spurious history. uncountable

    "Instead, there was the fraudulent manufacturing of false antihistory. It was the kind of deception for which professors are rightly fired[…]"

  2. 2
    A false or fictional narrative describing past events which did not actually occur. countable

    "Rousseau's antihistories paid homage to a time that might have been."

Example

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"Instead, there was the fraudulent manufacturing of false antihistory. It was the kind of deception for which professors are rightly fired[…]"

Etymology

From anti- + history.

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