uchronian

English

Etymology

From uchronia + -an.

Adjective

uchronian (comparative more uchronian, superlative most uchronian)

  1. Pertaining to uchronia ("an idealized or fictional conception of a particular period of time, especially in the past").
    Synonym: uchronic
    • 1945, John Laird, The Device of Government: An Essay on Civil Polity, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, page 115:
      For a long time to come, at least, it is too dangerous an experiment to base on hope. Again they may say that it never could succeed unless in a uchronian Utopia 'above these ruinable skies'.

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