noun
- The act of creating written works.
- usage: "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship"
- synonyms: writing, authorship, composition, penning
- The work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect. )
- usage: "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"
- synonyms: writing, written material, piece of writing
- Usually plural. ( the collected work of an author)
- usage: "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings"
- synonyms: writing
- Letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language.
- usage: "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible"
- synonyms: writing
- The activity of putting something in written form.
- usage: "she did the thinking while he did the writing"
- synonyms: writing, committal to writing
- The third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures.
- synonyms: Hagiographa, Ketubim
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