The act of creating written works:
— It was a matter of disputed authorship.
synonyms: composition, penning, writing.
Roget 590:
writing
etc.
v.;
chirography,
stelography†,
cerography†;
penmanship,
craftmanship†;
quill driving;
typewriting.
writing,
manuscript,
MS. ,
literae scriptae [Lat.];
these presents.
stroke of the pen,
dash of the pen;
coupe de plume;
line;
headline;
pen and ink.
letter
etc.
561;
uncial writing,
cuneiform character,
arrowhead,
Ogham,
Runes,
hieroglyphic;
contraction;
Brahmi†,
Devanagari,
Nagari;
script.
shorthand;
stenography,
brachygraphy†,
tachygraphy†;
secret writing,
writing in cipher;
cryptography,
stenography;
phonography†,
pasigraphy†,
Polygraphy†,
logography†.
copy;
transcript,
rescript;
rough copy,
fair copy;
handwriting;
signature,
sign manual;
autograph,
monograph,
holograph;
hand,
fist.
calligraphy;
good hand,
running hand,
flowing hand,
cursive hand,
legible hand,
bold hand.
cacography†,
griffonage†,
barbouillage†;
bad hand,
cramped hand,
crabbed hand,
illegible hand;
scribble
etc.
v.;
pattes de mouche [Fr.];
ill-formed letters;
pothooks and hangers.
stationery;
pen,
quill,
goose quill;
pencil,
style;
paper,
foolscap,
parchment,
vellum,
papyrus,
tablet,
slate,
marble,
pillar,
table;
blackboard;
ink bottle,
ink horn,
ink pot,
ink stand,
ink well;
typewriter.
transcription
etc.
(copy)
21;
inscription
etc.
(record)
551;
superscription
etc.
(indication)
550;
graphology.
composition,
authorship;
cacoethes scribendi [Lat.];
graphoidea†,
graphomania†;
phrenoia†.
writer,
scribe,
amanuensis,
scrivener,
secretary,
clerk,
penman,
copyist,
transcriber,
quill driver;
stenographer,
typewriter,
typist;
writer for the press
etc.
(author)
593.
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Roget 161:
production,
creation,
construction,
formation,
fabrication,
manufacture;
building,
architecture,
erection,
edification;
coinage;
diaster†;
organization;
nisus formativus [Lat.];
putting together
etc.
v.;
establishment;
workmanship,
performance;
achievement
etc.
(completion)
729.
flowering,
fructification;
inflorescence.
bringing forth
etc.
v.;
parturition,
birth,
birth-throe,
childbirth,
delivery,
confinement,
accouchement,
travail,
labor,
midwifery,
obstetrics;
geniture†;
gestation
etc.
(maturation)
673;
assimilation;
evolution,
development,
growth;
entelechy [Phil.];
fertilization,
gemination,
germination,
heterogamy [Biol.],
genesis,
generation,
epigenesis†,
procreation,
progeneration†,
propagation;
fecundation,
impregnation;
albumen
etc.
357.
spontaneous generation;
archegenesis†,
archebiosis†;
biogenesis,
abiogenesis†,
digenesis†,
dysmerogenesis†,
eumerogenesis†,
heterogenesis†,
oogenesis,
merogenesis†,
metogenesis†,
monogenesis†,
parthenogenesis,
homogenesis†,
xenogenesis1†;
authorship,
publication;
works,
opus,
oeuvre.
biogeny†,
dissogeny†,
xenogeny†;
tocogony†,
vacuolization.
edifice,
building,
structure,
fabric,
erection,
pile,
tower,
flower,
fruit.
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Roget 569:
style,
diction,
phraseology,
wording;
manner,
strain;
composition;
mode of expression,
choice of words;
mode of speech,
literary power,
ready pen,
pen of a ready writer;
command of language
etc.
(eloquence)
582;
authorship;
la morgue litteraire [Fr.].
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Dutch: auteurschap, schrijverschap
Polish: piśmiennictwo