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I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
Kurt Andersen

Meaning of "ahistorical" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AHISTORICAL

ahistorical  [ˌeɪhɪsˈtɒrɪkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AHISTORICAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ahistorical is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AHISTORICAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ahistoricism

Ahistoricism refers to a lack of concern for history, historical development, or tradition. Charges of ahistoricism are frequently critical, implying that the subject is historically inaccurate or ignorant. It can also describe a person's failure to frame an argument or issue in a historical context or to disregard historical fact or implication. An example of this would be films including dinosaurs and prehistoric human beings living side by side, even though they were millions of years apart in reality. It also can be descriptive of a view that history has no relevance or importance in the decision making of modern life. In some academic contexts, ahistoricism is the accepted norm. For example, the history of science is generally considered a quite separate discipline from, and not directly important to, research science. In philosophy, some criticism has arisen because "the dominant school of philosophy in the English speaking world, analytic philosophy has been trenchantly ahistorical, and indeed anti-historical", but that this is a problem remains a minority view. A more abstract definition of ahistoricism is simply independence from time, i.e. removed from history.

Definition of ahistorical in the English dictionary

The definition of ahistorical in the dictionary is not related to history; not historical.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AHISTORICAL


allegorical
ˌælɪˈɡɒrɪkəl
anaphorical
ˌænəˈfɒrɪkəl
antihistorical
ˌæntɪhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
categorical
ˌkætɪˈɡɒrɪkəl
ethnohistorical
ˌeθnəʊhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
historical
hɪˈstɒrɪkəl
metaphorical
ˌmɛtəˈfɒrɪkəl
nonhistorical
ˌnɒnhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
oratorical
ˌɒrəˈtɒrɪkəl
phantasmagorical
fænˌtæzməˈɡɒrɪkəl
pictorical
pɪkˈtɒrɪkəl
plethorical
plɛˈθɒrɪkəl
prehistorical
ˌpriːhɪsˈtɒrɪkəl
rhetorical
rɪˈtɒrɪkəl
semaphorical
ˌsɛməˈfɒrɪkəl
sociohistorical
ˌsəʊsɪəʊhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
transhistorical
ˌtrænzhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
unhistorical
ˌʌnhɪˈstɒrɪkəl
unmetaphorical
ˌʌnˌmɛtəˈfɒrɪkəl
unrhetorical
ˌʌnrɪˈtɒrɪkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AHISTORICAL

ahem
ahemeral
Ahern
AHHA
ahi
ahigh
ahimsa
ahind
ahint
ahistoric
Ahithophel
Ahmadabad
Ahmadinejad
Ahmadiyah
Ahmadiyyah
Ahmadnagar
Ahmedabad
Ahmednagar
ahold
ahorse

WORDS THAT END LIKE AHISTORICAL

aspherical
asymmetrical
chemical
chimerical
clerical
cylindrical
diametrical
electrical
empirical
geometrical
hysterical
lyrical
metrical
numerical
obstetrical
satirical
semiempirical
spherical
symmetrical
theatrical
unsymmetrical

Synonyms and antonyms of ahistorical in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ahistorical» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AHISTORICAL

Find out the translation of ahistorical to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ahistorical from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ahistorical» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

非历史
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ahistórica
570 millions of speakers

English

ahistorical
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ahistorical
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير تاريخية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неисторической
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ahistorical
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ahistorical
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

anhistorique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ahistorical
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ahistorisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

歴史に無関心な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

몰 역사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ahistorical
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phi lịch sử
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வரலாற்றுக்குப் புறம்பான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भौगोलिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tarihdışı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

astorico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ahistoryczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неісторичною
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

anistoric
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανιστορικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

a-historiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ohistoriska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ahistorisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ahistorical

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AHISTORICAL»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ahistorical

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QUOTES WITH «AHISTORICAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ahistorical.
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Kurt Andersen
I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AHISTORICAL»

Discover the use of ahistorical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ahistorical and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality
Hailed as the universal defense against univer- salism, historicism promises respect for difference, particularity, and pluralism where the ahistorical would impose tyrannical conformity. To grasp the influence of this argument, one need only ...
Rohy
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History Out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History
Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus Ahistorical does not mean to lack history — it designates those times when a people or group cannot be assimilated to Western narratives without such narratives exposing their political biases. To narrate ...
Sande Cohen, 2006
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Explorations in Economic Methodology: From Lakatos to ...
ahistorical«. models, such as in her writing on the inflation barrier). These models of golden age growth are clearly notahistorical« models, for the starting point cannotbe arbitrarilychosen: ifan economy is in equilibrium, she claimed,it must ...
Roger E. Backhouse, 2006
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Beyond Booked Solid: Your Business, Your Life, Your ...
Because being a conscious discloser is so important, I'm going to come at the definition again from another angle offered by Spinosa, Flores, and Dreyfus: A conscious discloser is someone who can be ahistorical. People who are ahistorical ...
Michael Port, 2010
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Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the ...
Close examination of Capital indicates that at crucial stages in his argument Marx himself had to fall back on both transhistorical and ahistorical concepts. Some of these concepts are as ahistorical as the allegedly universal concepts of ...
Geoffrey M Hodgson, 2002
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Cooperation, Community, and Co-Ops in a Global Era
Ahistorical,. Acultural. Accounts. of. Cooperation. and. Selfishness. In the Introduction, I explained why abstract features of cooperation are insufficient to explain or produce concrete features. Abstract features of cooperation can even be ...
Carl Ratner, 2012
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Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays
Questions like (a)-(c) can be understood as ahistorical questions. That is, they are questions about consciousness as it exists and is experienced in any of us at any moment. In contrast, (e) and (f ) are most naturally understood as historical ...
Valerie Gray Hardcastle, 1999
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Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of ...
temporalized eternity Kantian formalism and radical historicism are not really opposites, but two sides of the same coin: every version of historicism relies on a minimal “ahistorical” formal framework defining the terrain within which the open  ...
Adrian Johnston, 2008
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William Congreve: The Critical Heritage
ahistorical«. features. What happens, precisely, when theyare presented onthe stageby meansof flesh andblood? The. aactual«. features merely become more actual ... reinforce the author. Now turnto the. ahistorical«. features¦as, for example, ...
Howard Erskine-Hill, Alexander Lindsay, 2012
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An Imaginative Glimpse: The Trinity and Multiple Religious ...
Calvin O. Schrag's The Resources of Rationality, sketches his argument for a transversal logos as a solution to the problem of universalism versus particularism, one that is “passing between the Scylla of a hegemonic and ahistorical ...
Joas Adiprasetya, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AHISTORICAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ahistorical is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why everyone loves 'good governance'
'Corruption' is not an ahistorical, value-neutral descriptor. Even in the short span of India's post-independence history, it has been deployed in ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
2
Five Freuds in minister's robes
Professor Chemerinsky's entire legal arguments are terribly ahistorical here because he sets up a false paradigm that judging the law is like a ... «RenewAmerica, Jul 15»
3
Mary Heilmann and David Reed Join Forces at the Hamburger …
The work presented by both artists is excellent; however, the curatorial premise is weak, defaulting to ahistorical, decontextualized affinities. «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jul 15»
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That banner yet waves
Of course, the battle flag's implications often have nothing to do with Southern history, as countless Northern and ahistorical displays confirm. «Philly.com, Jul 15»
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Train travel is steaming back into its romantic past
We romantics are the ones muttering protests at the ahistorical, ingratiating "customer-facing" language of the private operators, by which a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Sharia marriage in the UK is not toxic - polygamous men are
Unsurprisingly, some ahistorical readings render the exceptional permission a blanket encouragement to fulfil a wandering eye. And as is so ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Communist Christianity and Fundamentalist Islam
The superficial Orientalist impression, now widespread, which considers Islamic fundamentalism to be the “natural” ahistorical inclination of ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
8
Death to America?
To pretend that Iran is an irrational actor, or plagued with an irrational or inexplicable hatred of the US, is absurd and ahistorical. As even Bill ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
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ISIS Destruction of Ancient Sites Hits Mostly Muslim Targets
... Studies at Brown University, points out the irony: “ISIS is arguing that their view is not corrupted, but they're doing so in a very ahistorical way. «National Geographic, Jul 15»
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In 1890, Richmond Erected a Monument to Robert E. Lee—and …
The notion that the flag is a symbol of Southern heritage and nothing more is an ahistorical one. From the moment it was designed it was ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»

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