historicity meaning
ENWHistoricity
- Historicity is the historical actuality of persons and events, meaning the quality of being part of history as opposed to being a historical myth, legend, or fiction.
- Some theoreticians characterize historicity as a dimension of all natural phenomena that take place in space and time.
- Questions regarding historicity concern not just the issue of "what really happened," but also the issue of how modern observers can come to know "what really happened.
- Questions of historicity are particularly relevant to partisan or poetic accounts of past events.
- NounPLhistoricitiesPREhisto-SUF-ity
- historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
- The historicity of Jesus' miracles is a matter of some debate among scholars.
- The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history (ideas, practices, institutions...), as opposed to being natural or universal.
- historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
Definition of historicity in English Dictionary
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- Morphemes
- Suffixes
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- Words suffixed with -ity
- Words suffixed with -ity
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- Singularia tantum
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "historicity" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.