epigonism

English

Etymology

epigone +‎ -ism

Noun

epigonism (usually uncountable, plural epigonisms)

  1. An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.
    • 1948, William Van O'Connor, Sense and Sensibility in Modern Poetry:
      Such a form of epigonism seems explicable only in that the authors, having no poetic sensibilities of their own, appropriate a poetry with which, presumably, they grew up. An even less excusable form of epigonism is the fairly frequent […]
  2. The product of an epigone.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French épigonisme.

Noun

epigonism n (uncountable)

  1. epigonism

Declension
declension of epigonism (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) epigonism epigonismul
genitive/dative (unui) epigonism epigonismului
vocative epigonismule
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