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playwrighting

playwrighting noun: writing plays: the craft of a playwright.

Noun

playwrighting (uncountable)

  1. Writing plays: the craft of a playwright
    • Driving Miss Daisy won this year's Pulitzer Prize for playwrighting.1988 May 13, Anthony Adler, “Driving Miss Daisy; Body Parts”, in Chicago Reader
    • He pays homage to feminist playwrights such as Ntozake Shange and Caryl Churchill for bringing a new vitality and innovation to playwrighting — further enhancing theatre's power to affect us.1989 May 6, Jaye Melton, “Queer Living On Stage”, in Gay Community News, page 8

Origin of playwrighting

From playwright + -ing.

Questions about playwrighting

What does playwrighting mean?
Playwrighting means writing plays: the craft of a playwright.
What part of speech is playwrighting?
Playwrighting is a noun.

Words near playwrighting in the dictionary

  1. playworlds
  2. playworthy
  3. playwright
  4. playwrightess
  5. playwrightesses
  6. playwrighting
  7. playwrights
  8. playwrite
  9. playwriter
  10. playwriters
  11. playwrites

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