historicity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being historically real or authentic rather than legendary or invented

   Scholars continue to debate the historicity of the traditional account.

2. 2
   noun

   the condition of being situated in and shaped by history

   The study emphasizes the historicity of concepts that once seemed timeless.

From historic + -ity, probably influenced by German Historizitat and French historicite in scholarly use. It can mean factual existence in history or, more broadly, the historically conditioned character of a person or idea.

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