pseudohistoryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

pseudo- +‎ history, coined around 1815, after New Latin pseudo-historia (since 1654 または earlier according to OED).

名詞

pseudohistory (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pseudohistories)

1. (derogatory) False history.

   When asked what could possibly justify their aggression, they responded with nothing but pseudohistory and mythology.

2. (derogatory) Any work claiming to be a historical account without using established historiographical methods, especially one using personal speculation or questionable evidence without necessary care or concern for the truth.
   • 1815, Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical review: or, Annals of literature, volume 1, page 152:

     The contemptible trick practised by Mr. Anderson, in the first chapter of his pseudo-history, must not pass without due correction.

上位語

• pseudo-scholarship

下位語

• euhemerization (mythology & popular beliefs)

等位語

• quasihistorical

関連する語

• pseudohistorian
• pseudohistorical

参考

• antihistory