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poiesis

poiesis noun: an act or process of creation.

Noun

poiesis (countable and uncountable, plural poieses)

  1. An act or process of creation.
    • Metanoia is the knowledge that there can be totalities in this world totally different from what we thought. This is the sense in which metanoia is the most radical form of poiesis.2017, Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig, Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 162

poiesis meaning in Tamil

poiesis in Tamil

உற்பத்திச்செயல்

Forms of poiesis

pluralpoieses

Origin of poiesis

From Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis), from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make”). Doublet of poesy.

Words formed from poiesis

Questions about poiesis

What does poiesis mean?
Poiesis means an act or process of creation.
What is poiesis in Tamil?
Poiesis in Tamil is உற்பத்திச்செயல். See Poiesis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is poiesis?
Poiesis is a noun.
What is the plural of poiesis?
The plural of poiesis is poieses.

Words near poiesis in the dictionary

  1. Poienarii de Argeș
  2. Poienarii de Muscel
  3. Poienești
  4. Poieni
  5. poieses
  6. poiesis
  7. poietic
  8. poifect
  9. poignance
  10. poignances
  11. poignancies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poiesis (page history and authors); poiesis (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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