uchronia

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French uchronie, formed after utopie (“utopia”), from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) +‎ Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) +‎ -ia. === Noun === uchronia (countable and uncountable, plural uchronias) An idealized or fictional conception of a particular period of time, especially in the past. An imaginary setting of a work of fiction derived from assuming that a single particular real-world event had occurred differently than it did, causing history to differ from then on; alternate timeline. ==== Derived terms ==== uchronian uchronic ==== Translations ==== === See also === euchronia