historicity
English edit
Etymology edit
Probably from French historicité,[1] or from Latin historicus + -ity.[2] Equivalent to historic + -ity.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
historicity (usually uncountable, plural historicities)
- 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.
- (philosophy) 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.
- 2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194:
- A superficial impression of Asia may be of disorder, whereas this condition is in fact the immediate historicity that speaks for an undertheorised heteroglossia.
Translations edit
historical quality
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characteristic of having appeared in history
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ “historicity”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “historicity”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading edit
historicity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
