unhistorical
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7.3
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈhɪstərɪkəl/
:
ahistórico
- The "new man" idea is by far the strangest and most unhistorical illusion about America.
Examples
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Although the horror of the Holocaust is recognized as a limit case in European and American scholarship, the historian Gyanendra Pandey suggests that the 1947 Partition of India appears even more "unhistorical" and inexplicable.
Academic text (2014) -
To maintain otherwise is to be unhistorical.
Academic text (1990) -
The charge they must weigh: Unhistorical Activities.
Academic text (2006) -
This view is unhistorical as well as incomplete, for it leaves out other cultures such as the Chinese or Indian.
Academic text (1996) -
They assume, without further discussion, both Catholic moral teaching and its classicist, unhistorical, and unchanging character.
Academic text (2008) -
In conclusion, the virtue of looking at this history play as a whole imaginative construct allows both the historical and the unhistorical portions to intersect and show meaning reciprocally.
Academic text (2004) -
The "so-called Negro," as the exponents of the Nation of Islam would say, was both ahistorical, if not unhistorical in reference, and associated with social obsequiousness.
Academic text (1994) -
Leonor, an unhistorical secondary figure, appropriates the discursive functions of serious political issues and, with her insistence on erotic desire mediated by the strategy of madness, accesses those issues and processes.
Academic text (2004) -
Many historians criticize the novel for its unhistorical portrayal of events during the Civil War.
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He dismissed the theories as unhistorical, arguing they did not align with actual historical evidence.
Synonyms
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8.4
Not connected to past events
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6.1
Not based on facts and therefore not true
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6.7
Information that is not true or not based on facts
Not based on known facts about the past
Not based on history or past events
Not about real events from the past
Not connected with real past events
Antonyms
How Accurate
Surface Forms
Morphology
unhistorical = historical (transparent) = un + historical
The productive negative prefix 'un' is attached to the adjective 'historical', yielding a clear meaning 'not historical'.
Etymology
The word unhistorical is made from un- meaning 'not' and historical, which comes from history meaning 'a story of the past'. So unhistorical describes something that is not based on real history or real events.