historicity
/ˌhɪstəˈɹɪsɪti/
historicity noun: historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
Noun
historicity (usually uncountable, plural historicities)
- Historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
- The historicity of minor political figures of this period is often hard to establish due to a dearth of sources.
- The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history, as opposed to being natural or universal.
- This particular school places great emphasis on the historicity of ideas, practices, or institutions.
- A superficial impression of Asia may be of disorder, whereas this condition is in fact the immediate historicity that speaks for an undertheorised heteroglossia.2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194
historicity meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Marathi
historicity in Hindi
- historical quality
- ऐतिहासिकता aitihāsiktā
- characteristic of having appeared in history
- ऐतिहासिकता aitihāsiktā
historicity in Tamil
- வரலாற்றுத் தன்மை
historicity in Marathi
- historicity
- ऐतिहासिकता aitihāsiktā
Forms of historicity
| plural | historicities |
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Origin of historicity
Probably from French historicité, or from Latin historicus + -ity. Equivalent to historic + -ity.
Words that rhyme with historicity
- felicity
- simplicity
- elasticity
- electricity
- atomicity
- publicity
- ethnicity
- laicity
- infelicity
- plasticity
- syntheticity
- triplicity
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Questions about historicity
- What does historicity mean?
- Historicity means historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
- What is historicity in Hindi?
- Historicity in Hindi is ऐतिहासिकता (aitihāsiktā). See Historicity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is historicity?
- Historicity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce historicity?
- Historicity is pronounced /ˌhɪstəˈɹɪsɪti/.
- What is the plural of historicity?
- The plural of historicity is historicities.
Words near historicity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: historicity (page history and authors); historicity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ऐतिहासिकता (Marathi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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