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Meaning of epigonism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.
    uncountable, usually
  2. The product of an epigone.
    uncountable, usually

Examples

“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 […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Epigonoi Epigram Epigrammatic Epigrammatically epigrammatiser epigrammatism

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