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unetymologically

unetymologically

English

Adverb

unetymologically (comparative more unetymologically, superlative most unetymologically)

  1. In a way which is not etymological.
    • 2012, Gisela Kaplan, Contemporary Western European Feminism
      But while women were often not in touch with their own history—what feminists came to call, unetymologically but pertinently, 'herstory'—they were keenly aware of the immediate, oppressive past.