historicity
2
7.9
- noun
- /ˌhɪstəˈrɪsɪti/
- Specialized
:
historicidad
- The recoding of African, European, and Brazilian toponyms typifies this new historicity.
- the historicity of trauma
- the historicity of African societies
- the problem of historicity
You can now strip out the historicity of Christ.
- You can now strip out the historicity of Christ.
- So the historicity, the facts of things, OK, if if the Torah is much more than that is it's like you said, myth.
- I have come to identify the value which this has in opposition to historicity.
- So we begin with Frank, Frank coming into the store and initiating this entire sequence of events having to do with historicity.
Examples
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The historicity of this play is studied scrupulously by Reichenberger throughout his critical edition.
Academic text (2004) -
Despite postmodern critiques of grand narratives, history and historicity continue to be central theological criteria for determining the true and the real.
Academic text (2002) -
To be sure, the modern mind has a lively sense of what it calls the historicity of human experience.
Academic text (1992) -
In those instances, we may doubt the historicity of the information provided.
Blog text (28) -
The essential historicity of the text has been forgotten or ignored.
Academic text (1997) -
Nor, on the other hand, is the historicity of concrete processes and events explored.
Academic text (1994) -
Consequently, facts and fictions in dealing with historicity are mental constructions.
Academic text (2017) -
Varisco argues that the genealogy's lack of historicity should not be confused with its credibility.
Academic text (1995) -
Stare decisis, for example, holds that past decisions, simply by virtue of their historicity, their pastness, shall be binding.
Academic text (1994) -
Historians often debate the historicity of certain events in ancient texts.
Synonyms
Being a real event that happened in the past
How Real
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Historicity comes from history, which means 'a record of past events', and the ending -ity, which means 'quality' or 'state'. So historicity is the 'quality of being part of real history' or how much something belongs to the past.