counterfactualityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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counterfactuality (countable and uncountable, plural counterfactualities)

1. The quality of being counterfactual.
   • 2004 September 5, Laura Miller, “Imagine”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2021-07-15:

     Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a particular event had happened otherwise.