authorship
authorships
If you write something, you are engaged in authorship. If you want a fancy way of asking "Who wrote that letter?" — try, "Who is responsible for the authorship of that letter?" Fancy, indeed!
Authorship can refer to anything, not just the creation of written text; you can have authorship of a new idea, a new cocktail, a new fashion style — anything. And just as doctors practice medicine, or architects architecture, so writers practice authorship; in other words, authorship also means the actual act of authoring or writing.
Definitions of authorship
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the act of creating written works“it was a matter of disputed authorship”
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synonyms:
composition, penning, writing
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types:
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adoxography
fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects
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drafting
writing a first version to be filled out and polished later
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dramatisation, dramatization
conversion into dramatic form
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fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization
writing in a fictional form
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historiography
the writing of history
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metrification
writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition)
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novelisation, novelization
converting something into the form of a novel
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redaction
the act of putting something in writing
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lexicography
the act of writing dictionaries
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versification
the art or practice of writing verse
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type of:
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verbal creation
creating something by the use of speech and language
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the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing“the authorship of the theory is disputed”
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synonyms:
paternity
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type of:
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creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination
the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
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creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination
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