Historicity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌhɪstəˈɹɪsɪti/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Historicity is a noun meaning Historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
Meaning
Historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
More Meanings
- (philosophy) The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history, as opposed to being natural or universal.
Example Sentences
This particular school places great emphasis on the historicity of ideas, practices, or institutions.
The historicity of minor political figures of this period is often hard to establish due to a dearth of sources.
A superficial impression of Asia may be of disorder, whereas this condition is in fact the immediate historicity that speaks for an undertheorised heteroglossia.
Word Forms
- historicities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include historicalness, historicness, historicality, factuality, authenticity, transhistoricity.
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