remote past
Long-ago eras
The remote past refers to times so far back they feel disconnected from the present—ancient history, prehistoric eras, or simply periods beyond living memory.
In grammar, some languages have a remote past tense distinguishing events from long ago versus recent occurrences.
Cave paintings from the remote past still captivate us.
- ancientVery old indeed
- ancient historyStudy of earliest civilizations
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- ice ageEra of massive glaciation
- primordialExisting from the start
dawn of time · antiquity · bygone · days of yore · long ago · eons · millennia · time immemorial · forgotten · ancestral · immemorial · mists of time · archaic · timeworn · epochs · fossils · ruins · lost civilization
temporal distance from present
remote pastdistant future
Time very far ahead
far future · present · now · near future · immediate future
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