"allohistory" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /alə(ʊ)ˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation], /alə(ʊ)ˈhɪst(ə)ɹɪ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /æləˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/ [General-American], /æloʊˈhɪst(ə)ɹi/ [General-American] Forms: allohistories [plural]
Etymology: From allo- + history. Etymology templates: {{af|en|allo-|history}} allo- + history Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} allohistory (usually uncountable, plural allohistories)
  1. Synonym of alternate history Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Alternate history, Fiction, History Synonyms: alternate history [synonym, synonym-of], alternate history, alternative history (english: both senses) Related terms: allohistorical

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2015 July 19, Nader Elhefnawy, After the New Wave: Science Fiction Today, pages 46–47",
          "text": "[…]the early twenty-second century in a timeline where the atomic bomb that instilled such dread in Royland never materialized, resulting in an Axis victory. Over fifty years old now, \"Two Dooms\" predated Philip K. Dick's more famous World War II allohistory, The Man in the High Castle by three years.",
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          "text": "I define alloliterature as the alteration of known literary texts to present an alternate outcome from the original text. As with allohistory, a large range of texts can be deemed alloliterary in nature, with the three primary types of alloliterature aligning with the three types of allohistory:[…]",
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