-poiesis

1. a combining form meaning “making, formation,” used in the formation of compound words:

   hematopoiesis.

-poiesis

combining form

1. indicating the act of making or producing something specified

   haematopoiesis

Derived Forms

• -poietic, combining_form:in_adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of -poiesis¹

< Greek -poiēsis; poesy, -sis

Word History and Origins

Origin of -poiesis¹

from Greek, from poiēsis a making; see poesy

Example Sentences

The word “poetry” derives from the Greek poiesis, which doesn’t refer to the writing of verse; it just means “making,” in general.

From The New Yorker

Presumably, Shakespeare’s play and Dostoevsky’s novel function as modern equivalents to Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King” and Homer’s epics, the ancient works that Aristotle drew upon in formulating his influential views about poiesis, the art of making.

From Washington Post

We forget that poiesis and metaphor provides children with the skill to use rational thinking in outside-the-box ways.

From Forbes

Techné belongs to bringing-forth, to poiésis; it is something poietic.

From Forbes

The one is a thing grown, the other a thing made; the one a praxis, the other a poiesis: the one the offspring of tendency and indeterminate time, the other of choice and of an epoch.

From Project Gutenberg