What does "unwrittenness" mean?

The quality of being unwritten.

Unwrittenness

Q: What is a synonym for "unwrittenness"?

Common synonyms include: absence of records, casualness, informality, lack of codification, lack of written records, unrecordedness.

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Noun

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The quality of being unwritten. uncountable
"Soap opera is so readily incorporated into everyday life because its formal structures represent the liveness, the nowness, the unwrittenness of oral culture."

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absence of records casualness informality lack of codification lack of written records unrecordedness

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codification documentation formalization recordedness

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"Soap opera is so readily incorporated into everyday life because its formal structures represent the liveness, the nowness, the unwrittenness of oral culture."

Etymology

From unwritten + -ness.

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