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CREATIVE THINKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ability to create
Synonyms:
creative thinking; creativeness; creativity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("creative thinking" is a kind of...):
ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)
Meronyms (parts of "creative thinking"):
divergent thinking; out-of-the-box thinking (thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions; associated with creativity)
Attribute:
creative; originative (having the ability or power to create)
uncreative (not creative)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creative thinking"):
fecundity; fruitfulness (the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination)
flight (passing above and beyond ordinary bounds)
genius; wizardry (exceptional creative ability)
imagination; imaginativeness; vision (the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses)
conception; design; excogitation; innovation; invention (the creation of something in the mind)
cleverness; ingeniousness; ingenuity; inventiveness (the power of creative imagination)
