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unwrittenness

unwrittenness noun: the quality of being unwritten.

Noun

unwrittenness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unwritten.
    • Soap opera is so readily incorporated into everyday life because its formal structures represent the liveness, the nowness, the unwrittenness of oral culture.2010, John Fiske, Reading the Popular, page 159

Antonyms of unwrittenness

Origin of unwrittenness

From unwritten + -ness.

Questions about unwrittenness

What does unwrittenness mean?
Unwrittenness means the quality of being unwritten.
What part of speech is unwrittenness?
Unwrittenness is a noun.

Words near unwrittenness in the dictionary

  1. unwrites
  2. unwriting
  3. unwritten
  4. unwritten rule
  5. unwritten rules
  6. unwrittenness
  7. unwroken
  8. unwrong
  9. unwronged
  10. unwrongful
  11. unwrote

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