counterinterpretation

English

Etymology

counter- +β€Ž interpretation

Noun

counterinterpretation (countable and uncountable, plural counterinterpretations)

  1. An interpretation that goes against another interpretation.
    • 2009 April 9, β€œThe New Deal Revisionists: Will They Ever Learn?”, in New York Timesβ€Ž:
      I ask because when historians of any era run out of new things to say, they inevitably turn to a counterinterpretation.

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