counterinterpretation

noun

counterinterpretation

noun

Etymology From counter- + interpretation.

1

An interpretation that goes against another interpretation.

  • I ask because when historians of any era run out of new things to say, they inevitably turn to a counterinterpretation.2009 April 9, “The New Deal Revisionists: Will They Ever Learn?”, in New York Times:

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