Meaning of antihistory | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Spurious history.
   uncountable
2. A false or fictional narrative describing past events which did not actually occur.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

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

“[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.”

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