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  • noun The state or quality of being crafted.

Etymologies

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crafted +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Perhaps the passage of time does allow us to see more clearly the craftedness of some works of art that at first seemed simply model-breaking, but ultimately I see no conflict between innovation in poetry or fiction and the skillful construction of individual poems, plays, short stories, or novels.

    Postmodernism 2010

  • Anyway, in addition to this critique of the story's craftedness, a valuation which is explicitly subjective is placed on the plausibility of character relationships.

    How Not to be a Writer Hal Duncan 2009

  • Anyway, in addition to this critique of the story's craftedness, a valuation which is explicitly subjective is placed on the plausibility of character relationships.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • I imagine also that as your readership exploded your self-consciousness and craftedness increased.

    I’m Not Bad, I Just Blog That Way | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • I imagine also that as your readership exploded your self-consciousness and craftedness increased.

    I'm Not Bad, I Just Blog That Way 2007

  • You can see in the characters this sort of hand-craftedness to them, like they each have their own quirks.

    Destructoid 2010

  • Perhaps the passage of time does allow us to see more clearly the craftedness of some works of art that at first seemed simply model-breaking, but ultimately I see no conflict between innovation in poetry or fiction and the skillful construction of individual poems, plays, short stories, or novels.

    The Reading Experience 2008

  • Partly this is because each line in Marlatt’s work reverberates with a historical/emotional pulse, not unlike a Woolfian line, while a line from Ernaux becomes brittle, snaps under its own craftedness not craftiness, though what I want to suggest is the attention to thinking, not “knowing”.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Lemon Hound 2006

  • Partly this is because each line in Marlatt’s work reverberates with a historical/emotional pulse, not unlike a Woolfian line, while a line from Ernaux becomes brittle, snaps under its own craftedness not craftiness, though what I want to suggest is the attention to thinking, not “knowing”.

    Notes toward an essay on Daphne Marlatt Lemon Hound 2006

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