nonhistory

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ history

Noun[edit]

nonhistory (usually uncountable, plural nonhistories)

  1. That which is not history.
    • 2001, William G Dever, What did the biblical writers know, and when did they know it?:
      Their works, despite a laudable attempt to break the impasse we have seen in writing text-based histories of ancient Israel, are essentially nonhistories.