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INVENTIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The power of creative imagination
Synonyms:
cleverness; ingeniousness; ingenuity; inventiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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)
