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an·ti-his·tor·i·cal | \ ˌan-tē-hi-ˈstȯr-i-kəl, -ˈstär-, ˌan-tī- 
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\variants:
or less commonly antihistorical
Definition of anti-historical
: opposed to or disagreeing with history : in opposition to the accepted historical record
… his apocalyptic outlook makes his novel not merely ahistorical but in some sense antihistorical.— Jonathan Rosen
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The first known use of anti-historical was in 1716
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