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HISTORICALNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Significance owing to its history
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("historicalness" is a kind of...):
significance (the quality of being significant)
Derivation:
historical (belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past)
historical (used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time)
historical (of or relating to the study of history)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of having in fact existed in the past
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("historicalness" is a kind of...):
reality (the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be)
Derivation:
historical (having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary)
