Presentist

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs.
2. A follower of presentism.

Example Sentences

Many people lost their perspective in their euphoria and became parochial and presentist.

To read him as defensively fashioning what we now call a "black identity" is 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.

Industrial processes like these ignore the distinctive demands of local culture and practices and rely fundamentally on the elimination of existing farming cultures as the essence of agriculture. While purportedly forward-looking, this approach is profoundly presentist and placeless.

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.

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• more presentist
• most presentist
• presentists

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