screenwriting

noun — 2 senses

screenwriting

noun

Etymology From screen + writing.

1

Usually The art of writing screenplays.

2

Usually A screenplay.

  • Devine's script, while able, had betrayed an amateur's disregard for montage — a trait it shared with the screenwritings of John Elder; […]2009, Denis Meikle, A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer, page 142:
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