Home › Words › P › penpersonshippenpersonshippenpersonship means handwriting.EtymologyBy analogy with penmanship and penwomanship, penperson + -ship.nounHandwriting.e.g.“The 8- and 9-year-olds answered assignments to define women’s liberation in Mission View and Lewis and Clark grade schools recently. In sometimes painful penpersonship, they scrawled their answers.” — 1977 February 16, “Let women drive diesels, children say”, in The Daily Universe, volume 30, number 106, Provo, Utah, page 8:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.penmanship 72% match — Synonym of handwriting or chirography, one's own style of writing. vs penpersonship →penwomanship 72% match — A woman's skill in handwriting. vs penpersonship →pencraft 68% match — Penmanship; skill in writing; the art of writing. vs penpersonship →writercraft 66% match — penmanship; skill in writing; the art of writing vs penpersonship →scription 65% match — handwriting vs penpersonship →chirography 64% match — Synonym of handwriting or penmanship, one's personal skill at writing. vs penpersonship →handwritten 63% match — Written with a person's hand, as opposed to typed. vs penpersonship →manuscribe 63% match — To write by hand. vs penpersonship →