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Definitions
going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis)
Word origin
From counter- + factual.
Used in a sentence
“a leaderless disinformation campaign, with claims leaping from conspiracy theorists to state propagandists to alternative-media outlets and back—an ecosystem I call the Counterfactual Community.”
“What would have happened if those great Chinese voyages [by Zheng He] had continued? It's one of those questions in counter-factual history about which it is impossible to be sure.”
“The counterfactual 1982 of the novel plays variations on our historical record and contains clear allusions to the present.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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