Paleofantasy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fantasy about how things were in the distant or geological past. rare

    "That’s just a paleofantasy about the future."

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"That’s just a paleofantasy about the future."

Etymology

From paleo- + fantasy, introduced by Marlene Zuk as the title of her book criticising paleodiets.

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