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copyism

noun

Etymology

From copy + -ism.

  1. derived from cōpia
  2. derived from copia
  3. derived from copie
  4. inherited from copy
  5. suffixed as copyism — “copy + ism”

Definitions

  1. A style based on slavish imitation, without character or originality.

    • There is no genial infusion of the principles of design, no appeal to the imagination, no initiation into art as such, but only a dry, hard copyism of model drawings, line by line, and shade by shade.

  2. plagiarism

    • Now, in charging an author, more particularly a poet, with copyism, the resemblance ought surely to be at least as marked as in the foregoing extract.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA