historicity
/ˌhɪstəˈɹɪsɪti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.40 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history, as opposed to being natural or universal.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The historicity of minor political figures of this period is often hard to establish due to a dearth of sources."
- "This particular school places great emphasis on the historicity of ideas, practices, or institutions."
- "A superficial impression of Asia may be of disorder, whereas this condition is in fact the immediate historicity that speaks for an undertheorised heteroglossia."
- "Beginning from Eliot's views on metaphysical poets, dissociated sensibility with thinkers like Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes and ideologies like Capitalism, dedoublement in Eliot's poetics, Freudian and Jamesian diagnosis of mind, Bergson's theory of dreams and perceptions, Shusterman's emphasis on anti-Cartesian stance of Eliotionism, Eliot's Anglicanism, Eliot's unified sensibility versus Coleridge's coinstantaneity, Baudelaire's romanticism read as counter romanticism, Eliot's "Tradition and Individual Talent" and Herbert Schneidau's "Tradition and two Individual Talents", Terry Eagleton's objection to Eliot's historicity."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French