different between unwritten vs unwrittenness

English

From Middle English unwriten, from Old English unwriten, un?ewriten (“unwritten”), equivalent to un- +? written.

unwritten (not comparable)

Not written.
Oral or otherwise communicated without writing.
Implicit or understood but not formally articulated.
It's an unwritten rule that you lock the gate when you leave the swimming pool.
Containing no writing; blank.
unwritten paper

unwritten

unwritten +? -ness

unwrittenness (uncountable)

The quality of being unwritten.
- 2010, John Fiske, Reading the Popular (page 159)
  Soap opera is so readily incorporated into everyday life because its formal structures represent the liveness, the nowness, the unwrittenness of oral culture.

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