Meanings
adjectivemetahistorical (not comparable)
- not comparableRelating to metahistory.
Like revisionist historical novels, metahistorical novels propose two stories, one set in the past, the other in the present.
2021, Ina Bergmann, quoting Daniel Candel Bormann, The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction, Routledge, →ISBN
Origin
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metahistorical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metahistorical
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“metahistorical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metahistorical. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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