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单词 ahistorical
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Definition of ahistorical in English:

ahistorical

adjective eɪhɪˈstɒrɪkl-ˈstär-
  • Lacking historical perspective or context.

    ahistorical nostalgia that misunderstands cultural history
    Example sentencesExamples
    • First, equating activity at oral argument with participating ‘in the public life of the court’ is, well, quite odd and ahistorical.
    • Colonial apologists have often used this ahistorical narrative to celebrate the advent of colonialism.
    • But that would be both ahistorical and way too pat.
    • This, however, leads to an ahistorical view of the world, and could lead to poor diplomacy and bad policy.
    • If we ignore the context in which thinkers lived and worked, and proceed in a sort of ahistorical history of ideas fashion, we are never going to understand why.
    • It's collective guilt selectively applied, a concept of Original Sin limited to certain time-zones and complexions, and weirdly ahistorical.
    • That is one of the great nonsensical, ahistorical misconceptions.
    • The immediacy of violence and the reaction of artists were in some part ahistorical focusing instead on the universal and timeless viscerality.
    • As a classification, it is vague and ahistorical.
    • Such ahistorical preconceptions suggest that the only good work being done is work that is completely new.
    • And let's be honest, all that kung-fu fighting is pretty ahistorical.
    • Descriptions about religions throughout the book are invariably ahistorical, fail to inculcate any rational enquiry and singularly ignore the time and space contexts.
    • If the economy is a machine - something built by human beings - it seems to have become, somewhere along the line, an ahistorical machine.
    • But the worst offense is a tone of cheerful, sanitized neutrality so overwhelming that it actually renders the prose ahistorical.
    • My reading of his work is that his analysis is somewhat static and ahistorical - though in other ways very astute.
    • This is a profoundly ahistorical proposition.
    • Both of these notions are simplistic and ahistorical, and I'll try to argue that they're shortsighted.
    • But there are others outside modernity who live with selves that originate and are grounded in ahistorical modes of constructing the past - in legends, myth and epic.
    • I totally repudiate all of my ignorant, racist, unfactual and ahistorical arguments above.
    • The attitude of the filmmakers toward history and society is ahistorical and subjective in the extreme.

Derivatives

  • ahistorically

  • adverb
    • This method of one-sidedly and ahistorically picking and choosing facts to fit a pre-determined political conclusion is as unscientific as it is intellectually bankrupt.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He bolsters his argument with quotations about rivers, rings, and trees drawn randomly and ahistorically from different writers.
      • While Laurence may seem blithely, ahistorically optimistic, Frank sees the world through the bleak prism of the ‘old’ South Africa; and both perspectives, the novel would seem to suggest, are pernicious.
      • Today's audiences can hardly appreciate the ahistorically high standards to which they have grown accustomed.
      • Conventional celebrations of the cultural variety of Melanesia tend to employ ethnographies ahistorically: the decades between early and recent descriptive texts slip away as our attention fixes on the cultural mosaic.

Rhymes

allegorical, categorical, historical, metaphorical, oratorical, phantasmagorical, rhetorical
 
 

Definition of ahistorical in US English:

ahistorical

adjective-ˈstär-
  • Lacking historical perspective or context.

    ahistorical nostalgia that misunderstands cultural history
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Both of these notions are simplistic and ahistorical, and I'll try to argue that they're shortsighted.
    • The attitude of the filmmakers toward history and society is ahistorical and subjective in the extreme.
    • That is one of the great nonsensical, ahistorical misconceptions.
    • If we ignore the context in which thinkers lived and worked, and proceed in a sort of ahistorical history of ideas fashion, we are never going to understand why.
    • The immediacy of violence and the reaction of artists were in some part ahistorical focusing instead on the universal and timeless viscerality.
    • Descriptions about religions throughout the book are invariably ahistorical, fail to inculcate any rational enquiry and singularly ignore the time and space contexts.
    • Colonial apologists have often used this ahistorical narrative to celebrate the advent of colonialism.
    • First, equating activity at oral argument with participating ‘in the public life of the court’ is, well, quite odd and ahistorical.
    • But that would be both ahistorical and way too pat.
    • And let's be honest, all that kung-fu fighting is pretty ahistorical.
    • My reading of his work is that his analysis is somewhat static and ahistorical - though in other ways very astute.
    • This, however, leads to an ahistorical view of the world, and could lead to poor diplomacy and bad policy.
    • But there are others outside modernity who live with selves that originate and are grounded in ahistorical modes of constructing the past - in legends, myth and epic.
    • It's collective guilt selectively applied, a concept of Original Sin limited to certain time-zones and complexions, and weirdly ahistorical.
    • I totally repudiate all of my ignorant, racist, unfactual and ahistorical arguments above.
    • If the economy is a machine - something built by human beings - it seems to have become, somewhere along the line, an ahistorical machine.
    • But the worst offense is a tone of cheerful, sanitized neutrality so overwhelming that it actually renders the prose ahistorical.
    • This is a profoundly ahistorical proposition.
    • Such ahistorical preconceptions suggest that the only good work being done is work that is completely new.
    • As a classification, it is vague and ahistorical.
 
 
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