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Definition of Ahistorical
1. Adjective. Unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition.
Definition of Ahistorical
1. Adjective. Lacking historical perspective or context. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ahistorical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ahistorical
Literary usage of Ahistorical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects, and Globalization by Mario Blaser, Glenn McRae, Harvey A. Feit (2004)
"Even more generally, the ahistorical underpinnings of economic development schemes
such as the ETP serve to perform a kind of violence to local knowledge by ..."
2. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"Rorty's technique of "deconstruction" of the tradition (showing that distinctions
which purport to be founded on ahistorical "nature" or "reason" are in ..."
3. The Cold War in Asia by Cold War International History Project (1996)
"... interpretive impulse likely to create conflict is a notion of ideology that
is ahistorical and anemic. This unfortunate approach to the role of ideas in ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"by Ch. Johnston; " Buddhaghosa: ahistorical romance.' by Prof. James Gray; "The
Discovery of Secrets," attributed to Geber, in Arabic and English, ..."
5. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"That came about through the chemistry of phlogiston and through the invention of
subtle techniques in the laboratory. Unless one takes the ahistorical ..."
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