ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Inventiveness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Inventiveness is a noun meaning The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing.

Meaning

The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: resourcefulness, creativity, imagination
For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have never overpassed: […]

Word Forms

Synonyms for inventiveness

Depending on context, synonyms include inventivity, resourcefulness, creativity, imagination, ingenuity, cleverness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ingenuity, ingeniousness, cleverness, creativeness, creativity, innovativeness.

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