Epigonality

Quick meaning: Epigonality is a noun meaning (rare) Creative followership; imitation.

Meaning

(rare) Creative followership; imitation.

Example Sentences

Above all, two continuously encountered research perspectives stand in the way of an objective and open-ended textual investigation: teleology and, often in conjunction with it, the assumption of epigonality.

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 epigonic methods.

I would suggest that the weighting towards a male-authored tradition in Italy does cause female authors to feel a different kind of inhibition from that generic sense of epigonality associated with the post-modern period.

Synonyms for epigonality

Depending on context, synonyms include epigonism, imitation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include epigonism, epicaricacy, eidolopeia, epicosity, epitropy, epicism.

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