Meaning of presentist | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs.

Examples

“Many people lost their perspective in their euphoria and became parochial and presentist.”

“To read⟳ him as defensively fashioning what we now call⟳ a "black identity" is presentist.”

“One aspiration is to mark⟳ a particularly momentous year in American history. Another is to combat the presentist bias that harms our ability to see⟳ clearly today.”

“Industrial processes like⟳ these ignore⟳ the distinctive demands of local culture and practices and rely⟳ fundamentally on the elimination of existing farming cultures as the essence of agriculture. While purportedly forward-looking, this approach⟳ is profoundly presentist and placeless.”

“Most of the time, no one really seems to notice⟳ that presentist legerdemain, perhaps because so few of us actually remember⟳ the experience⟳ of 2020 all that clearly and are clinging to hastily imposed narratives instead.”

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