Dictionary

historicity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌhɪstəˈɹɪsɪti/

Etymology

Probably from French historicité, or from Latin historicus + -ity. Equivalent to historic + -ity.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
   • The historicity of minor political figures of this period is often hard to establish due to a dearth of sources.
2. (uncountable, usually) The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history, as opposed to being natural or universal.
   • This particular school places great emphasis on the historicity of ideas, practices, or institutions.
   • A superficial impression of Asia may be of disorder, whereas this condition is in fact the immediate historicity that speaks for an undertheorised heteroglossia. 2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194:
   • Beginning from Eliot's views on metaphysical poets, dissociated sensibility with thinkers like Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes and ideologies like Capitalism, dedoublement in Eliot's poetics, Freudian and Jamesian diagnosis of mind, Bergson's theory of dreams and perceptions, Shusterman's emphasis on anti-Cartesian stance of Eliotionism, Eliot's Anglicanism, Eliot's unified sensibility versus Coleridge's coinstantaneity, Baudelaire's romanticism read as counter romanticism, Eliot's "Tradition and Individual Talent" and Herbert Schneidau's "Tradition and two Individual Talents", Terry Eagleton's objection to Eliot's historicity. 2008, “Preface”, in Nidhi Tiwari, editor, Critical Perspectives on T.S. Eliot's Poetry, Sarup and Sons, →ISBN:

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Relateds

historicality

Translations (17)

nl historiciteit (historical quality) · fi historiallisuus (characteristic of having appeared in history) · kk тарихилық (historical quality) · ca historicitat (historical quality) · ru историчность (historical quality) · pt historicidade (historical quality) · hi ऐतिहासिकता (historical quality) · pl historyczność (historical quality) · es historicidad (historical quality) · cmn 史實性 /史实性 (historical quality) · fi historiallisuus (historical quality) · hi ऐतिहासिकता (characteristic of having appeared in history) · cmn 史實性 /史实性 (characteristic of having appeared in history) · fr historicité (historical quality) · sv historicitet (characteristic of having appeared in history) · kk тарихшылдық (historical quality) · sv historicitet (historical quality)