copyism

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English

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Etymology

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From copy +‎ -ism.

Noun

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copyism (countable and uncountable, plural copyisms)

  1. (archaic) A style based on slavish imitation, without character or originality.
    • 1854, Putnam's Monthly, volume 4, page 201:
      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. (archaic) plagiarism
    • 1820, The Christian Observer, volume 18, page 227:
      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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