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poiesis en · NOUN

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis), from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make”). Doublet of poesy.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) An act or process of creation.
    • Metanoia is the knowledge that there can be totalities in this world totally different from what we thought. This is the sense in which metanoia is the most radical form of poiesis. 2017, Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig, Metanoia: A Speculative Ontology of Language, Thinking, and the Brain, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 162:

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Deriveds

-poiesis

Relateds

poietic · esthesis

Translations (2)

it poiesi (act or process of creation) · pt poiese (act or process of creation)