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CREATIVE ACTIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creative activity mean? 

CREATIVE ACTIVITY (noun)
  The noun CREATIVE ACTIVITY has 1 sense:

1. the human act of creatingplay

  Familiarity information: CREATIVE ACTIVITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CREATIVE ACTIVITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The human act of creating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

creation; creative activity

Hypernyms ("creative activity" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creative activity"):

erotica; porn; porno; pornography; smut (creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire)

re-creation (the act of creating again)

creating from raw materials (the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it)

production (the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services)

creating by mental acts (the act of creating something by thinking)

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

creating by removal (the act of creating by removing something)


 Context examples 


Forms of creative activity that involve performance before an audience (e.g., drama, dance, music).

(Performing Arts, NCI Thesaurus)



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