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postwriting

postwriting noun: the stages of a book that take place after writing.

Noun

postwriting (uncountable)

  1. The stages of a book that take place after writing.
    • Isou and Lemaitre further introduced scriptural systems (metagraphics, or postwriting, and hypergraphy, respectively) that fetishize the graphic as irreducible to vocalization.2001, Steve McCaffery, Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics, page 171

Origin of postwriting

From post- + writing.

Questions about postwriting

What does postwriting mean?
Postwriting means the stages of a book that take place after writing.
What part of speech is postwriting?
Postwriting is a noun.

Words near postwriting in the dictionary

  1. postwomen
  2. postwork
  3. postworkout
  4. postworkshop
  5. postworthy
  6. postwriting
  7. posty
  8. postyield
  9. postyuppie
  10. postzionist
  11. postzionists

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