antihistory

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noun

Spurious history.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounantihistory (countable and uncountable, plural antihistories)

plural antihistories

  1. uncountableSpurious history.

    Instead, there was the fraudulent manufacturing of false antihistory. It was the kind of deception for which professors are rightly fired[…]

    2011, Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Israel, page 213
    1 more example

    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.

    2011, Robert C. Williams, The Historian's Toolbox, →ISBN, page 31
  2. countableA false or fictional narrative describing past events which did not actually occur.

    Rousseau's antihistories paid homage to a time that might have been.

    1975, Peter Hanns Reill, The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism, →ISBN, page 69
    1 more example

    [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.

    2001, John Kadvany, Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason, →ISBN, page 316

Origin

Translations

Portuguese anti-história
  • anti-histórianarrative describing past events which did not actually occur
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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