paleofantasy

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English

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Alternative forms

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  • paleo-fantasy

Etymology

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paleo- +‎ fantasy, introduced by Marlene Zuk as the title of her book criticising paleodiets.

Noun

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paleofantasy (plural paleofantasies)

  1. (rare) A fantasy about how things were in the distant or geological past.
    • 2009 January 20, Marlene Zuk, “The Evolutionary Search for Our Perfect Past”, in New York Times[1]:
      That’s just a paleofantasy about the future.