ahistoricism

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noun

An attitude that tends to ignore history as being unimportant and having no relevance to modern life or decision making.

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Meanings

nounahistoricism (countable and uncountable, plural ahistoricisms)

plural ahistoricisms · alternative anhistoricism

  1. countableuncountableAn attitude that tends to ignore history as being unimportant and having no relevance to modern life or decision making.

    The lesbian reader most likely would favor reading The Well as a condemnation of heterosexual society, but we risk ahistoricism if we assume that the general audience of the 1920s uniformly received this message from Hall’s novel.

    1997, Sherrie A. Inness, The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life, Univ of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 24

Origin

From a- + historic + -ism.

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Translations

Finnish ahistorismi, historiasta piittaamattomuus
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Polish ahistoryzm
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Cite this entry
APA

ahistoricism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ahistoricism

MLA

“ahistoricism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ahistoricism. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ahistoricism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ahistoricism.

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