English Dictionary

epochism

名詞

不可算名詞

A tendency to regard the epoch in which one lives as superior to others.

日本語の意味

自分が生きる時代を他の時代と比較して、優れていると考える傾向。 / 自身の属する時代を過大評価し、他の時代を低く評価する考えや態度。

The historian warned that epochism can blind people to the virtues of earlier eras, leading them to assume their own time is the pinnacle of progress.

歴史家は、時代優越主義が人々を過去の時代の美点に気づかせず、自分たちの時代が進歩の頂点だと思い込ませると警告した。

意味（1）

A tendency to regard the epoch in which one lives as superior to others.

I call this epochism because it exalts one's own epoch to the contempt of other epochs. Epochism is a kind of unwisdom. Its opposite is a sense of tradition, an openness to the values that guided the lives of those before us.