screenwriting

English

Etymology

screen + writing

Noun

screenwriting (usually uncountable, plural screenwritings)

  1. (uncountable) The art of writing screenplays.
  2. (countable) A screenplay.
    • 2009, Denis Meikle, A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer, page 142:
      Devine's script, while able, had betrayed an amateur's disregard for montage — a trait it shared with the screenwritings of John Elder; []
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