Usually means: Bias toward present-day attitudes.
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  1. presentism: Merriam-Webster
  2. presentism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. presentism: Collins English Dictionary
  4. presentism: Vocabulary.com
  5. presentism: Wordnik
  6. presentism: Wiktionary
  7. presentism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. presentism: Dictionary.com
  9. Presentism (philosophy), Presentism (philosophy of time), Presentism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. presentism: Rhymezone
  11. presentism: FreeDictionary.org
  12. presentism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. presentism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (presentism)

noun:  (philosophy) The view that neither the future nor the past exist (events and entities that are wholly past or wholly future do not exist at all).
noun:  The belief that only current phenomena are relevant.
noun:  The ahistorical interpretation of past phenomena in terms of current beliefs and knowledge.

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