nonhistorical

Examples

• All

• For nonhistorical purposes, let me tell you what I really think:

  Academic text (1996)

• To claim Rome broke away from herself is not only an error but nonhistorical.

  Blog text (21)

• Art cannot both belong to culturally distinct historical epochs and be a product of nonhistorical forces.

  Academic text (1992)

• Aboriginal scholars have challenged the ways Native people are depicted as illiterate and therefore nonhistorical.

  Academic text (2009)

• Real-time is nonhistorical, and net-space is a kind of para-place that is mostly interstice.

  Academic text (1994)

• My goal is not to fall into the quagmire of the historical/nonhistorical, objectivity/subjectivity, faith/knowledge debates.

  Academic text (2008)

• The author's argument was based on nonhistorical assumptions that ignored actual events.

• His theories about society are often criticized as being nonhistorical because they disregard past influences.

• The film's nonhistorical portrayal of events led many viewers to question its accuracy.

Synonyms

A

ahistorical

vsnonhistorical

• Formal

1 8.4

Not connected to past events

is about being unrelated to past events rather than ignoring tradition

U

unhistorical

vsnonhistorical

1 7.3

Not based on real past events

is about lacking relation to past events rather than being inaccurate

N

nonhistoric

vsnonhistorical

5.5

Not connected with real past events

is about not being related to or based on past events

A

ahistoric

vsnonhistorical

• Formal

8.5

Not based on history or past events

is about simply not being related to or concerned with past events

How Historical

historic

501 3.9

historical

400 3.6

nonhistorical

6.3

Surface Forms

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