epigonic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

epigone +‎ -ic

Adjective[edit]

epigonic (comparative more epigonic, superlative most epigonic)

  1. Being or relating to an epigone or disciple; imitative.
    Synonym: imitative
    • 1969, William S. Newman, The sonata since Beethoven: the third and final volume of a history of the sonata idea:
      A sample of Liapunov's epigonic style may be quoted from the second theme (cited above) as it undergoes polyphonic extensions in the first development section (Ex. 122).
    • 2004, Paul Bishop, Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Camden House, →ISBN, page 325:
      I want to show that Stifter's novel is not only important for Nietzsche's aesthetics, but it is itself concerned with developing a strategy of epigonic writing. Stifter's own commentary implies that the attempt to distance oneself from epigonality, to overcome it—as was the case with Immerman—collapses the novel, and he arrives at a conscious affirmation of epigonic methods.

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From epigon +‎ -ic.

Adjective[edit]

epigonic m or n (feminine singular epigonică, masculine plural epigonici, feminine and neuter plural epigonice)

  1. epigonic

Declension[edit]