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INVENTIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inventiveness mean? 

INVENTIVENESS (noun)
  The noun INVENTIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the power of creative imaginationplay

  Familiarity information: INVENTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INVENTIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The power of creative imagination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cleverness; ingeniousness; ingenuity; inventiveness

Hypernyms ("inventiveness" is a kind of...):

creative thinking; creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)

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

imagination; resource; resourcefulness (the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems)

Derivation:

inventive ((used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action)


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