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POETICS

Dictionary entry overview: What does poetics mean?

• POETICS (noun)
The noun POETICS has 1 sense:

1. study of poetic works

Familiarity information: POETICS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• POETICS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Study of poetic works

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("poetics" is a kind of...):

literary study (the humanistic study of literature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poetics"):

metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)

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