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English
Etymology
epigone + -ic
Adjective
epigonic (comparative more epigonic, superlative most epigonic)
- Being or relating to an epigone or disciple; imitative.
- Synonym: imitative
1969, William S. Newman, The sonata since Beethoven: the third and final volume of a history of the sonata idea:A sample of Liapunov's epigonic style may be quoted from the second theme (cited above) as it undergoes polyphonic extensions in the first development section (Ex. 122).
2004, Paul Bishop, Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Camden House, →ISBN, page 325:I want to show that Stifter's novel is not only important for Nietzsche's aesthetics, but it is itself concerned with developing a strategy of epigonic writing. Stifter's own commentary implies that the attempt to distance oneself from epigonality, to overcome it—as was the case with Immerman—collapses the novel, and he arrives at a conscious affirmation of epigonic methods.
Romanian
Etymology
From epigon + -ic.
Adjective
epigonic m or n (feminine singular epigonică, masculine plural epigonici, feminine and neuter plural epigonice)
- epigonic
Declension