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posthistorical

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From post- +‎ historical.

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posthistorical (not comparable)

  1. Relating to posthistory.
    • 1994 February, Robert D. Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      While a minority of the human population will be, as Francis Fukuyama would put it, sufficiently sheltered so as to enter a "post-historical" realm, living in cities and suburbs in which the environment has been mastered and ethnic animosities have been quelled by bourgeois prosperity, []