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Swedish
Etymology
historia + -lös. Not listed in SAOB. Listed in SAOL 10th ed. (1973), but not 9th ed. (1954).
Adjective
historielös (not comparable)
- ignorant regarding history, lacking (knowledge of) history, unhistoried, historyless
- Alldeles historielöst och amerikanskt sköt det närbelägna samhället Malmberget upp.
- Entirely American and without history, the nearby village Malmberget sprung up.
- Man plägar beteckna den »historielösa» kulturen såsom etnologiens egentliga föremål.
- Traditionally cultures without (written) history have been the real subject of ethnology.
- dagens historielösa ungdom
- today's youth, ignorant of history
Declension
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
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