Counterfactualism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of counterfactuality. uncountable

    "Gavriel D. Rosenfeld has devoted an entire book to a discussion of WWII counterfactualism: The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism."

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counterfactuality

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"Gavriel D. Rosenfeld has devoted an entire book to a discussion of WWII counterfactualism: The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism."

Etymology

From counterfactual + -ism.

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