wordcraft

English

Etymology

From word +‎ -craft.

Noun

wordcraft (uncountable)

1. Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.
   • 2000, Deirdre N. McCloskey, How to be human: though an economist:

     To identify a piece of speech in finance as rhetoric is not to damn it but to identify it as part of wordcraft.

   • 1990, J. P. Fokkelman, Narrative art and poetry in the books of Samuel:

     It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft […]