ahistorical
/eɪhɪˈstɒrɪkl
/adjective
Lacking historical perspective or context.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 attitude of the filmmakers toward history and society is ahistorical and subjective in the extreme.
- 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.
Derivatives
ahistorically
- 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.