Word: Ahistoricism
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1940s; earliest use found in American Sociological Review. From a- + historicism, after French anhistoricisme
Definition:
A tendency to be unconcerned with history or historical events, a lack of regard for history; specifically a system of thought or analysis which fails to view persons, texts, cultural phenomena, etc., within their historical context. Compare "historicism", new historicism.
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