Antihistory
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Antihistory is a noun meaning (uncountable) Spurious history.
Meaning
(uncountable) Spurious history.
More Meanings
- (countable) A false or fictional narrative describing past events which did not actually occur.
Example Sentences
Rousseau's antihistories paid homage to a time that might have been.
Instead, there was the fraudulent manufacturing of false antihistory. It was the kind of deception for which professors are rightly fired[…]
The most notorious example of antihistory is historical denial. Historical denial asserts that a well-known event never really happened or that a well-known person never existed.
[W]e are constantly subject to the danger of creating foundations for the antiethics of Stalinism, the antiscience of Lysenko genetics, and the antihistories of Muscovite historians.
Word Forms
- antihistories
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pseudohistory, unhistory, mis-history, negationism, counterfactual, antichronism.
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