Meaning of ahistoricism | Babel Free

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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