stenography

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the art, system, or practice of recording speech rapidly in shorthand or with a stenotype machine

   She studied stenography so that she could take down a speaker's words almost as quickly as he spoke.

2. 2
   noun

   writing or reporting that reproduces statements with little independent analysis or scrutiny

   The article amounted to stenography because it repeated the press release without checking its claims.

From steno-, ultimately Greek stenos, 'narrow or compressed,' + -graphy, from Greek graphia, 'writing.' The name literally denotes compressed writing and was applied to systems designed to capture speech rapidly.

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