epigonic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "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."
Etymology
From epigone + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more epigonic (comparative)
most epigonic (superlative)