epigone
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- noun
- /ˈɛpɪˌgoʊn/
- Offensive
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epígono
- Henceforth, Zarathustra talks only to disciples and epigones, and even then in parables and metaphors.
Examples
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As an epigone of modern art, he struggled to find his own voice, often mimicking the techniques of others.
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"No one, particularly not democratic man, wants to feel like an epigone.
Academic text (2002) -
After Park's assassination, his epigones were able to extend military rule for another eight years, but the tide had already turned.
Academic text (2018) -
For we shall not be able to combat antiscientism and its epigones with any great hope of success unless we understand quite clearly just what the problem is.
Academic text (1995) -
His epigones invented his association with these ideas, all contradicted in his Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations.
Blog text (19) -
Struck supported von Luschan's opinion that after 1600, when the finest objects were considered to have been made, production was "rather poorly carried on by epigones" (1923:113).
Academic text (1997) -
Writing philosophy is perhaps inseparable from working to confer auras on particular words: the major philosophers choose new and surprising ones; their epigones add a little to the lustre and disappear.
Academic text (1990) -
Many artists today are seen as epigones of the great masters, lacking their originality.
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Critics argue that the new film is just another epigone of classic action movies without any fresh ideas.
Synonyms
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A person who does the same things or says the same words as another person
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A person who copies another person's words, actions, or style
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A person who tries to copy and match someone's words or actions
A person who copies a famous artist's work and is not as good
A woman or girl who copies the style of others
Antonyms
How Original
Surface Forms
Etymology
Epigone comes from Greek parts epi- 'after' and -gonos 'birth', so it originally meant 'born after'. So an epigone is someone who comes after a great artist and copies them, often thought to be less original, and the 'birth' root appears in words like generation and gene.