Presentist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Presentist is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs.
More Meanings
- A follower of presentism.
Example Sentences
To read him as defensively fashioning what we now call a "black identity" is presentist.
Many people lost their perspective in their euphoria and became parochial and presentist.
One aspiration is to mark a particularly momentous year in American history. Another is to combat the presentist bias that harms our ability to see clearly today.
Most of the time, no one really seems to notice that presentist legerdemain, perhaps because so few of us actually remember the experience of 2020 all that clearly and are clinging to hastily imposed narratives instead.
Word Forms
- presentists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include projectivist, situationist, productivist, pragmaticistic, poststructuralist, revisionist.
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