Posthistorical

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to posthistory. not-comparable

    "While a minority of the human population will be, as Francis Fukuyama would put it, sufficiently sheltered so as to enter a "post-historical" realm, living in cities and suburbs in which the environment has been mastered and ethnic animosities have been quelled by bourgeois prosperity, […]"

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"While a minority of the human population will be, as Francis Fukuyama would put it, sufficiently sheltered so as to enter a "post-historical" realm, living in cities and suburbs in which the environment has been mastered and ethnic animosities have been quelled by bourgeois prosperity, […]"

Etymology

From post- + historical.

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