See also: -poiesis

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From Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis), from ποιέω (poiéō, to make). Doublet of poesy.

Noun

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poiesis (countable and uncountable, plural poieses)

  1. An act or process of creation.
    • 2017, Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig, Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 162:
      Metanoia is the knowledge that there can be totalities in this world totally different from what we thought. This is the sense in which metanoia is the most radical form of poiesis.

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