paleofantasy

English

Alternative forms

• paleo-fantasy

Etymology

From paleo- +‎ fantasy, introduced by Marlene Zuk as the title of her book criticising paleodiets.

Noun

paleofantasy (plural paleofantasies)

1. (rare) A fantasy about how things were in the distant or geological past.
   • 2009 January 20, Marlene Zuk, “The Evolutionary Search for Our Perfect Past”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     That’s just a paleofantasy about the future.