Videographies

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A collection of works documenting events or subjects through video recordings
2. The art or process of creating a recorded visual account using film or digital technology
3. An anthology or catalog of video recordings focused on specific themes, people, or moments

Etymology: "Videographies" is the plural of "videography," so it simply inherits the history of its singular. That word is built from "video-," from Latin "videre," meaning "to see," and "-graphy," from Greek "graphia," meaning "writing" or "recording." Put together, the base sense is recording with moving images, the same way "photography" records with light. The stem "video-" was first used on its own in the mid-twentieth century, when it came to name the television-related technology that recorded and played back moving pictures. "Videography" followed the pattern of older words such as "photography" and "cinematography," and it is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary, which dates its entry to the year 2000 when the dictionary was launched online.