What does antihistory mean?
Antihistory means (uncountable) Spurious history..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(uncountable) Spurious history..
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.
Rousseau's antihistories paid homage to a time that might have been.
[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.
Use antihistory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Antihistory means (uncountable) Spurious history..
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Instead, there was the fraudulent manufacturing of false antihistory. It was the kind of deception for which professors are rightly fired[…]
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