Copyism

Quick meaning: Copyism is a noun meaning (archaic) A style based on slavish imitation, without character or originality.

Meaning

(archaic) A style based on slavish imitation, without character or originality.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) plagiarism

Example Sentences

Now, in charging an author, more particularly a poet, with copyism, the resemblance ought surely to be at least as marked as in the foregoing extract.

There is no genial infusion of the principles of design, no appeal to the imagination, no initiation into art as such, but only a dry, hard copyism of model drawings, line by line, and shade by shade.

Word Forms

• copyisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include copy, copycatism, apery, travesty, rip-off, misimitation.

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