Inventiveness

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing..

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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: […]

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• inventivenesses

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