Unwrittenness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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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"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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