Presenter vs Presentist - What's the difference?
presenter | presentist |
Someone who presents a broadcast programme; a compere or master of ceremonies.
Someone who presents a thing or person to someone else.
(computing) A small handheld device used to remotely control a computerised slide show.
(software) Part of a special GUI software that assumes the functionality of the "middle-man".
Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs.
* '"Many people lost their perspective in their euphoria and became parochial and presentist ." (Wellman and Hogan, 2004)
* "To read him as defensively fashioning what we now call a "black identity" is presentist ." (McWhorter, 2009).
