Pseudohistory

Alternative forms

• pseudo-history

Origin

- + history, coined around 1815, after Neo-Latin pseudo-historia (since 1654 or earlier according to OED).

Full definition of pseudohistory

Noun

1. Any work that claims to be history, but does not use established historiographical methods; especially one that uses disputed evidence and speculation rather than relying on the analysis of primary sourcesThe contemptible trick practised by Mr. Anderson, in the first chapter of his pseudo-history, must not pass without due correction. (The Critical review: or, Annals of literature, Volume 1, ed. Tobias George Smollett, 1815, p. 152)

Hypernyms

• pseudo-scholarship

Related terms

• pseudohistorian
• pseudohistorical