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ennealogy

ennealogy noun: a set of nine works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as nine individual works.

Noun

ennealogy (plural ennealogies)

  1. (rare) A set of nine works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as nine individual works.
    • These works […] appear, upon closer scrutiny, to be dramatic, and are actually the seventh and eighth parts of an “ennealogy” (as it were), perhaps “polylogy,” for dramas in Japan frequently are protracted to such lengths.1992, Andrew Lawrence Markus (English quoter), August Pfizmaier (German author), “Über den Text eines japanischen Drama’s” (1870), page 115, quoted in The Willow in Autumn: Ryūtei Tanehiko...
    • […] George Passant, the protagonist of C.P. Snow’s second novel in the Strangers and Brothers ennealogy […]2009, Roger Cooke, Review of Naming Infinity, page 11

Forms of ennealogy

pluralennealogies

Questions about ennealogy

What does ennealogy mean?
Ennealogy means a set of nine works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as nine individual works.
What part of speech is ennealogy?
Ennealogy is a noun.
What is the plural of ennealogy?
The plural of ennealogy is ennealogies.

Words near ennealogy in the dictionary

  1. enneahedral
  2. enneahedron
  3. enneahedrons
  4. enneakis-
  5. ennealogies
  6. ennealogy
  7. enneameter
  8. enneameters
  9. enneandrous
  10. enneapetalous
  11. enneaploid

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