paleofantasy
nounEtymology From paleo- + fantasy, introduced by Marlene Zuk as the title of her book criticising paleodiets.
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Rare A fantasy about how things were in the distant or geological past.
- That’s just a paleofantasy about the future.2009 January 20, Marlene Zuk, “The Evolutionary Search for Our Perfect Past”, in New York Times: