CREATIVITY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does creativity mean?

• CREATIVITY (noun)
The noun CREATIVITY has 1 sense:

1. the ability to create

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

Dictionary entry details

• CREATIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ability to create

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

creative thinking; creativeness; creativity

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

ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)

Meronyms (parts of "creativity"):

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 "creativity"):

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)

Derivation:

creative (promoting construction or creation)

creative (having the ability or power to create)

Context examples

With Jupiter so beautifully oriented toward Neptune, your creativity will be very strong and yield impressive results.