historylessness

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English

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Etymology

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historyless +‎ -ness

Noun

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historylessness (uncountable)

  1. Absence of history.
    • 2006, June E. Roberts, Reading Erna Brodber, page 58:
      Brodber uses the most commonly recognized tropes of Caribbean discourse—and, to borrow a term from Gates's Signifying Monkey, " tropes the tropes" of exile, self-hatred, self-alienation, and longing for the sought after prestige of privileged white Otherness, elevating elsewhereism, accepting as natural a hegemonically imposed sense of historylessness, split subjectivity, dependence and psychic fragmentation.