historicalness

Variant of historical

historical definition

his·tori·cal (his tôr′i kəl, -tär′-)

adjective

  1. of or concerned with history as a science the historical method
  2. providing evidence for a fact of history; serving as a source of history a historical document
  3. based on or suggested by people or events of the past a historical novel
  4. established by history; not legendary or fictional; factual; real
  5. showing the development or evolution in proper chronological order a historical account
  6. historic (sense )

Etymology: < L historicus + -al

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