Presentist

Full definition of presentist

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs.
• '"Many people lost their perspective in their euphoria and became parochial and presentist." (Wellman and Hogan, 2004)
• "To read him as defensively fashioning what we now call a "black identity" is presentist." (McWhorter, 2009).

Anagrams

• persistent, pinsetters, prettiness