What does ahistorical mean?
Ahistorical means Lacking historical perspective or context..
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/ˌeɪhɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/ · adjective
Lacking historical perspective or context..
Students are profoundly ahistorical now, and I think they need to work out the notion of how their own environment, over time, has shaped their lives.
Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it.
The American historian John van Engen argues that Le Goff's and Schmitt's idea of a semi-pagan medieval Europe filled with remnants of 'Indo-European folklore' is rather dogmatic and ahistorical.
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Ahistorical means Lacking historical perspective or context..
Common synonyms include ahistoric.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Students are profoundly ahistorical now, and I think they need to work out the notion of how their own environment, over time, has shaped their lives.
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