Historic Compromise (en)

a historical Italian political alliance between the Christian Democrats and the Italian Communist Party in the 1970s

historical materialism (en)

(noun) the Marxist theory of history and society that holds that ideas and social institutions develop only as the superstructure of a material economic base

hoary (en)

(adjective) gray or white with or as if with age / (adjective) extremely old; ancient

Hobbesian (en)

referring to the 17th century English author Thomas Hobbes, whose best-known work, Leviathan, describes a situation of unrestrained, selfish and uncivilized competition

Holocene (en)

the current geological epoch which started some 11,500 years ago when the glaciers began to retreat

homily (en)

(noun) a usually short sermon / (noun) a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme / (noun) an inspirational catchphrase or platitude. homiletic: the art of preaching or writing sermons

Homo oeconomicus (en)

(or Homo economicus) a concept in many economic theories portraying humans as consistently rational and narrowly self-interested agents who usually pursue their subjectively-defined ends optimally

homonymy (en)

the relation between words with identical forms but different meanings

homothety (en)

(mathematics) An isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point

Honoré de Balzac (en)

a French novelist and playwright; La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus

hoplite (en)

(noun) a heavily armed infantry soldier of ancient Greece

Horatio Alger (en)

a prolific 19th-century American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty

horizontalism (en)

a social relationship that advocates the creation, development, and maintenance of social structures for the equitable distribution of management power (part of anarchist theory)

horizontic (en)

not sure - like horizontal?

hoydenish (en)

(noun) a girl or woman of saucy, boisterous, or carefree behavior

Huxtable (en)

The upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn that is the subject of The Cosby Show

hyperreality (en)

in semiotics and postmodernism: an inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced postmodern societies

hypnagogic (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or occurring in the period of drowsiness immediately preceding sleep

hypocaust (en)

(noun) an ancient Roman central heating system with underground furnace and tile flues to distribute the heat

hypostasis (en)

(noun) something that settles at the bottom of a fluid / (noun) the settling of blood in the dependent parts of an organ or body / (noun) person / (noun) the substance or essential nature of an individual / (noun) something that is hypostatized / (noun) failure of a gene to produce its usual effect when coupled with another gene that is epistatic toward it

hypostatisation (en)

regarding something abstract as a material thing (fallaciously); an effect of reification

hysterical realism (en)

a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other (see DeLillo, Pynchon, DFW, Zadie Smith)

ichor (en)

(noun) a thin watery or blood-tinged discharge / (noun) an ethereal fluid taking the place of blood in the veins of the ancient Greek gods

ideational (en)

of, relating to, or produced by ideation; broadly: consisting of or referring to ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses

ideologeme (en)

(sociology) A fundamental unit of ideology; popularised by Frederic Jameson in The Political Unconscious (1981)