unwrittenness

English

Etymology

unwritten +‎ -ness

Noun

unwrittenness (uncountable)

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

Antonyms

writtenness

Related terms

Translations

quality of being unwritten

German: Ungeschriebenskeit

Japanese: 白紙 (ja) (hakushi), 無記載 (mukisai), 暗黙 (ja) (anmoku)

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Chinese: ^{(please verify)} 不成文 (zh)

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