epigonic

English

Etymology

From epigone +‎ -ic.

Adjective

epigonic (comparative more epigonic, superlative most epigonic)

1. 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)

1. epigonic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	epigonic		epigonică		epigonici	epigonice
	definite	epigonicul		epigonica		epigonicii	epigonicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	epigonic		epigonice		epigonici	epigonice
	definite	epigonicului		epigonicei		epigonicilor	epigonicelor