unwrittenness

English

Etymology

unwritten +‎ -ness

Noun

unwrittenness (uncountable)

1. 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

• unwritten
• blank

Translations

quality of being unwritten

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不成文的特點／不成文的特点 (bùchéngwén de tèdiǎn)

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