historicity

noun
/ˌhɪstəˈɹɪsɪti/

Etymology

Probably from French historicité, or from Latin historicus + -ity. Equivalent to historic + -ity.

  1. borrowed from historicité

Definitions

  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. The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history, as opposed to being…

    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.
    • A superficial impression of Asia may be of disorder, whereas this condition is in fact the immediate historicity that speaks for an undertheorised heteroglossia.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for historicity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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