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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

event go
something that happens at a given place and time

act, deed, human action, human activity go
something that people do or cause to happen

activity go
any specific behavior

creation, creative activity go
the human act of creating

creating by mental acts go
the act of creating something by thinking

verbal creation go
creating something by the use of speech and language

authorship, writing, composition, penning
the act of creating written works

noun.act

10 Subcategories

adoxography go
fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects
drafting go
writing a first version to be filled out and polished later
dramatization, dramatisation go
conversion into dramatic form
fabrication, fictionalization, fictionalisation go
writing in a fictional form
historiography go
the writing of history
metrification go
writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition)
novelization, novelisation go
converting something into the form of a novel
redaction go
the act of putting something in writing
lexicography go
the act of writing dictionaries
versification go
the art or practice of writing verse