noun. The act, fact, or occupation of writing.

noun. Source or origin, as of a book or idea.

noun. The source or cause of anything that may be said to have an author; origination; causation: as, the authorship of an invention or of a political movement; a book whose authorship is unknown.

noun. The state of being an author; the occupation of writing books.

noun. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

noun. Source; origin; origination.

noun. The quality or state of being an author; the function or dignity of an author.

noun. The source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.

noun. the act of creating written works

noun. the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing

"Although all authorship is ultimately failure, as judged by its categorical inability to express the pure essence of an inspiration or idea, writing can sidestep and even subvert this inbuilt inability after a fashion by deliberately generating a sense that the words are reductions of awesome truths that loom behind them."

creation  foundation  founding  initiation  innovation  

authenticity  author  authoress  chronology  composer  

artistry  authorcraft  automatic writing  beginning  cacoethes scribendi