Antihistory
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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
More examples"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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