poesy means A poem. It carries an Arena rating of 1574, earned across 4 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, poesy ranks #3,434 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #5,283 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #5,427 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #5,529 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words.
poesy is pronounced /ˈpəʊɪzi/.
Why “poesy” is a great word
The art or composition of poetry; also, a poem or the collective body of poems. From Middle English poesie, from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poesia, from earlier Latin poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis, "making, creation, poetic art"). Unlike "verse," which denotes the technical scaffolding of meter and line, or "prose," the plain speech of fact and narrative, poesy is the entire, breathing artifice—the craft and the corpus both. It is the deliberate placement of a word so it catches the light just so, the silent music held in a stanza’s white space, and the whole accumulated shadow of all that has been rhymed and reckoned across centuries. It is the ancient house of shaped breath, the human act of making meaning where none was before.
Etymology
From Middle English poesie (Middle English po(esie) + -esy), from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poesia, from earlier poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis). Doublet of poiesis.
noun
- A poem.
- The art or composition of poetry.
- The class of literature comprising poems.e.g.“I know not well how to excuse him, in that hee deemed his Poesie worthy to be published.” — 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
verb
- To write or perform poetry.
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