Counterfactuality

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being counterfactual. countable, uncountable

    "Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a particular event had happened otherwise."

  2. 2
    the quality of being contrary to fact wordnet

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"Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a particular event had happened otherwise."

Etymology

From counterfactual + -ity.

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