Dictionary

ahistorical en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌeɪhɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/ (General-American)

Etymology

From a- + historical or ahistoric + -al.

Meanings

1. Lacking historical perspective or context.
   • 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. 2017 May 14, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
   • 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. 1925, The New Yorker, volume 51, page 32:
2. Not historically true or accurate; unsupported by historical evidence.
   • 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. 2002 June 17, Jussi Hanska, Strategies of Sanity and Survival: Religious Responses to Natural Disasters in the Middle Ages, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, →ISBN, page 38:

Forms

Deriveds

ahistorically · ahistoricalness

Synonyms

ahistoric

Translations (18)

de ahistorisch (lacking historical perspective) · sk ahistorický (lacking historical perspective) · es ahistórico (lacking historical perspective) · pt anistórico (lacking historical perspective) · fi historiaa tietämätön (lacking historical perspective) · ca anhistòric (lacking historical perspective) · sl ahistoričen (lacking historical perspective) · ru антиистори́ческий (lacking historical perspective) · cmn 不符合史實的 /不符合史实的 (not historically true or accurate) · cmn 缺乏歷史觀的 /缺乏历史观的 (lacking historical perspective) · kk тарихқа қарсы (lacking historical perspective) · it antistorico (lacking historical perspective) · fi epähistoriallinen (not historically true or accurate) · pl ahistoryczny (lacking historical perspective) · da ahistorisk (lacking historical perspective) · fr anhistorique (lacking historical perspective) · fi historian vastainen (not historically true or accurate) · pt aistórico (lacking historical perspective)