epigonism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

epigone +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

epigonism (usually uncountable, plural epigonisms)

  1. An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.
    • 1948, William Van O'Connor, Sense and Sensibility in Modern Poetry:
      Such a form of epigonism seems explicable only in that the authors, having no poetic sensibilities of their own, appropriate a poetry with which, presumably, they grew up. An even less excusable form of epigonism is the fairly frequent []
  2. The product of an epigone.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French épigonisme.

Noun[edit]

epigonism n (uncountable)

  1. epigonism

Declension[edit]