metahistory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The fundamental perspective for conceiving “metahistory” can be found in largely German thinkers. The German historicism of Herder, followed by that of Kant—who took issue with Herder's “metahistorical” interpretations, and then Kant's own students who deepened the evidence for the generational history that is the foundation for “metahistory,” Friedrich Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Leopold von Ranke and finally Friedrich Meinecke."
- "It’s also a mega-depressing example of manufactured meta-history, where the slaughter of thirteen people was obscured by the need to impose a cogent narrative upon a scenario that had no cogent explanation."