epigonism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English epigone

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.

English -ism

English epigonism

From epigone + -ism.

Noun

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French épigonisme.

Noun

epigonism n (uncountable)

1. epigonism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	epigonism	epigonismul
genitive-dative	epigonism	epigonismului
vocative	epigonismule