historicity

Probably from French historicité,^[1] or from Latin historicus +‎ -ity.^[2] Equivalent to historic +‎ -ity.

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɪstəˈɹɪsɪti/
• Rhymes: -ɪsɪti

historicity (usually uncountable, plural historicities)

1. 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. (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.

   • 2008, “Preface”, in Nidhi Tiwari, editor, Critical Perspectives on T.S. Eliot's Poetry‎^[1], Sarup and Sons, →ISBN:

     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.

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